Cheerio by Cheerio (open source project)
Open-source Node.js library for parsing and querying HTML/XML with a jQuery-like API.
Scraping and crawling Open source
Price
Free (open source)
you pay only for the compute it runs on
Free tier
Open source
SDK downloads
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npm cheerio
Status
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no public status page
Pricing
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| Good to know | Library, not a hosted API: free to use, does not fetch or render JavaScript itself. |
Open source: free to run on your own hardware; you pay only for the compute. Checked
Use it from an agent
| MCP server | None found |
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| npm | npm install cheerio |
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