cheeriov1.2.0, 23 Jan 2026
The fast, flexible & elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.
$ npm install cheerio@metascraper/helpersv5.56.2, 17 Aug 2026
Shared helper utilities used across metascraper rules for parsing and normalizing metadata.
$ npm install @metascraper/helpers| Metric | cheerio | @metascraper/helpers | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly downloads | 19,821,422 | 132,104 | cheerio 150.0x higher |
| 12-month download growth | +87% | - | - |
| Gzip size | - | - | - |
| Minified size | - | - | - |
| Dependencies | 11 | 25 | @metascraper/helpers 14 more |
| Unpacked size | 988 kB | 26 kB | @metascraper/helpers 37.6x smaller |
| Latest release | 1.2.0, 23 Jan 2026 | 5.56.2, 17 Aug 2026 | @metascraper/helpers 7 months more recent |
| Releases, last 12 months | 1 | - | - |
| First published | 8 Oct 2011 | - | - |
| GitHub stars | 30,503 | 2,742 | cheerio 11.1x higher |
| Open issues | 30 | 9 | cheerio 21 more |
| Open pull requests | 30 | 0 | cheerio 30 more |
| Contributors | - | - | - |
| Commits, last 52 weeks | 561 | 175 | cheerio 3.2x higher |
| TypeScript types | Bundled | None | Differs |
| Module format | ESM + CommonJS | CommonJS | Differs |
| Runtimes | - | - | - |
| License | MIT | MIT | Same |
Green marks the smaller size or the more recent release. Bold marks the higher count, with no judgement implied. Sizes are for the whole package per Bundlephobia. Growth compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series.
cheerio19.8m latest week
Week of 23 Sept 2025Week of 15 Sept 2026
cheerio
Major versions
- 0.0.18 Oct 2011
- 1.0.09 Aug 2024
Last 5 releases
- 1.2.023 Jan 2026
- 1.1.221 Jul 2025
- 1.1.120 Jul 2025
- 1.1.08 Jun 2025
- 1.0.09 Aug 2024
62 releases in total, 1 in the last 12 months
@metascraper/helpers
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- Need both ESM and CommonJS entry pointscheerio (cheerio: ESM + CommonJS; @metascraper/helpers: CommonJS)
- Need to load it with require()Both
- Need TypeScript types in the package itselfcheerio (cheerio: Bundled; @metascraper/helpers: None)
- Node.js version requirementcheerio: >=20.18.1; @metascraper/helpers: >= 22.13 (engines field in package.json)
- Need the more recent release@metascraper/helpers (5.56.2 on 17 Aug 2026 vs 1.2.0 on 23 Jan 2026)
- Higher weekly npm downloadscheerio (19.8m vs 132.1k)
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- cheerio vs html-react-parserNo search data
cheerio: cheerio npm registry, cheerio npm downloads, cheerio GitHub, cheerio jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.
@metascraper/helpers: @metascraper/helpers npm registry, @metascraper/helpers GitHub. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.
Indexability: Indexed.