There might be times when a website has data you want to analyze but the site doesn't expose an API for accessing those data.  To get the data, you'll have to resort to web scraping.  In this article, I'll go over how to scrape websites with Node.js and Cheerio.

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.com. How to Scrape Websites with Node.js and Cheerio. Joseph Mawa explains how to scrape websites with the two tools. He says it's easier than it looks and it's faster than you think. He also shows you how to use Cheerios to scrape sites with the same code.

How to Scrape Websites with Node.js and Cheerio

How to Scrape a Web Page in Node Using Cheerio

How to Get the Attribute of an Element in Cheerio

How to Loop Through a List of Elements in Cheerio

How to Append or Prepend an Element to a Markup in Cheerio

cheerio seems like an easy parser to use and learn 💖

tl;dr: You have to 1. Use a http client (http module, axios, etc) to fetch a web resource and 2. Use cheerio.js to parse and scrape data using DOM manipulation.
Great read, I’ve always thought that web scrapping was really hard but this article does a great job at explaining it.