Cheerio

aid: cheerio
name: Cheerio
kind: opensource
description: Cheerio is a fast, flexible, and elegant Node.js library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML using a jQuery-compatible
  API. It is widely used for server-side web scraping, HTML transformation, data extraction, and static site generation. Cheerio
  is MIT licensed and distributed as the cheerio npm package, maintained under the cheeriojs GitHub organization.
type: Index
position: Producer
access: Open Source
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cheerio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Data Extraction
- DOM
- HTML
- HTML Parsing
- jQuery
- MIT License
- Node.js
- npm
- Open Source
- Parser
- Scraping
- Server-side
- Web Scraping
- XML
created: '2026-03-29'
modified: '2026-04-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
- aid: cheerio:cheerio
  name: Cheerio
  description: Cheerio implements a subset of core jQuery designed for the server. It parses markup into a traversable, manipulable
    DOM-like data structure and exposes a familiar jQuery-style API for selecting elements, traversing the tree, modifying
    attributes, extracting text, and rendering HTML. It is commonly used in scraping pipelines, build tools, static site generators,
    and tests that need to operate over HTML content without launching a browser.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://cheerio.js.org/
  tags:
  - Data Extraction
  - HTML Parsing
  - jQuery
  - Node.js
  - Scraping
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cheerio.js.org/docs/intro
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cheerio.js.org/docs/intro
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://cheerio.js.org/docs/api
  - type: Blog
    url: https://cheerio.js.org/blog
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio
  - type: NPMPackage
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cheerio
  - type: License
    url: https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio/blob/main/LICENSE
  - type: ContributionGuide
    url: https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
  - type: Issues
    url: https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio/issues
  - type: ReleaseNotes
    url: https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio/releases
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://cheerio.js.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cheerio.js.org/docs/intro
- type: APIReference
  url: https://cheerio.js.org/docs/api
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cheeriojs
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio
- type: NPMPackage
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cheerio
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: Issues
  url: https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio/issues
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/cheerio-context.jsonld
- name: Features
  type: Features
  data:
  - name: jQuery-Compatible API
  - name: Server-Side HTML Parsing
  - name: XML Parsing
  - name: DOM Traversal
  - name: DOM Manipulation
  - name: CSS Selector Engine
  - name: parse5 Integration
  - name: htmlparser2 Integration
  - name: Streaming Parser
  - name: TypeScript Types
  - name: Browser-Compatible Builds
- name: UseCases
  type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Web Scraping
  - name: Server-Side HTML Manipulation
  - name: Static Site Generation
  - name: Data Extraction Pipelines
  - name: HTML Email Templating
  - name: SEO Auditing Tools
  - name: Content Migration
  - name: Test HTML Assertions
  - name: RSS and Atom Feed Generation
  - name: HTML Sanitization Tooling
- name: Tools
  type: Tools
  data:
  - name: cheerio
  - name: parse5
  - name: htmlparser2
  - name: domhandler
  - name: domutils
  - name: css-select
- name: Integrations
  type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Node.js
  - name: npm
  - name: TypeScript
  - name: Bun
  - name: Deno
  - name: Puppeteer
  - name: Playwright
  - name: Axios
  - name: node-fetch
  - name: Got
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com