cheerio – Tarik Billa

Cheerio: How to select element by text content?

January 1, 2024 by Tarik

The reason your code isn’t working is because [innerHTML] is an attribute selector, and innerHTML isn’t an attribute on the element (which means that nothing is selected). You could filter the span elements based on their text. In the example below, .trim() is used to trim off any whitespace. If the text equals ‘Category:’, then … Read more

Can I load a local html file with the cheerio package in node.js?

September 6, 2023 by Tarik

The input is an html string, so you need to read the html content yourself: var fs = require(‘fs’); cheerio.load(fs.readFileSync(‘path/to/file.html’));