# Cheerio

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cheerio/  
**Website:** https://cheerio.js.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 16.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 7.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Cheerio** — 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 ...

## Security (1)

- **Cheerio Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cheerio Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (10)

- **Web Scraping**
- **Server-Side HTML Manipulation**
- **Static Site Generation**
- **Data Extraction Pipelines**
- **HTML Email Templating**
- **SEO Auditing Tools**
- **Content Migration**
- **Test HTML Assertions**
- **RSS and Atom Feed Generation**
- **HTML Sanitization Tooling**

## Tags

Data Extraction, DOM, HTML, HTML Parsing, jQuery, MIT License, Node.js, npm, Open-Source, Parser, Scraping, Server-Side, Web Scraping, XML

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cheerio/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.