Cheerio web scraping

Web scraping is the process of extracting data from a website in an automated way and Node. js can be used for web scraping . Even though other languages and frameworks are more popular for web scraping, Node. js can be utilized well to do the job too.

Web scraping, also called web data mining or web harvesting, is the process of constructing an agent which can extract, parse, download and organize useful information from the web automatically .

Two packages node-fetch and cheerio are good enough for web scraping in JavaScript . We are not going to see every method that the packages are providing. We will see the flow of web scraping and the most useful methods in that flow. You will learn web scraping by doing it.4 Nis 2021