cheerio
The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.
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cheerio (TypeScript) — The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.
The page works without JavaScript — view-source contains the content you want.
jQuery-style HTML parsing for Node, with no browser. Ridiculously fast because it never renders JS. The default when you're scraping server-rendered pages (most blogs, docs, news, marketplace listings).
The page works without JavaScript — view-source contains the content you want.
The page renders content client-side (SPA, infinite scroll) — you need Playwright/Puppeteer.
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