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cheerio

The fast, flexible & elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.

v1.2.0, 23 Jan 2026MITESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledParsers and serialisersDOM and browser utilities
$ npm install cheerio
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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
19.8m
+87% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
11
Direct, from package.json
Last release
8 months ago
v1.2.0
GitHub stars
30.5k
1.7k forks
Open issues / PRs
30 / 30
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
561

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
010m20m30m40mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 38m (16 Jun 2026)Low 7.4m (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

19,821,422 downloads last week, 99,091,908 in the last month. The 12-month change of +87% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months
162 in total
Latest version
1.2.0, 23 Jan 20268 months ago
First published
8 Oct 2011
Last push to GitHub
25 Sept 2026same day as the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
30
Open pull requests
30
Commits, last 52 weeks
561
Dependents on npm
21,377

Major versions

  1. v1 first release 1.0.0, 9 Aug 2024
  2. v0 first release 0.0.1, 8 Oct 2011

Recent releases

VersionPublished
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
0.22.023 Aug 2016
0.20.01 Feb 2016
0.19.021 Mar 2015
0.18.06 Nov 2014
0.17.010 Jun 2014
0.16.09 May 2014
0.15.08 Apr 2014
0.14.01 Apr 2014
0.13.17 Jan 2014

Compatibility

Module format
ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=20.18.1
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
988 kB
Dependencies (11)
parse5undicidomutilsdomhandlerhtmlparser2cheerio-selectdom-serializerwhatwg-mimetypeencoding-snifferparse5-parser-streamparse5-htmlparser2-tree-adapter

Install

npm install cheerio

CDN

jsDelivr: 1.1m requests in 30 days
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/cheerio@1.2.0/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/cheerio@1.2.0/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/cheerio@1.2.0

Alternatives

PackageWeekly downloadsGzipLast releaseModuleComparison
html-react-parser2.7m-7 days agoESM + CommonJScheerio vs html-react-parser
cssom38.5m-5 years agoCommonJS-
html5parser1.8m-4 months agoESM + CommonJS-

Comparisons

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Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API, jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

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