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Bootstrap CheerioCrawler template

This is a project skeleton to help you bootstrap CheerioCrawler web scraping projects in JavaScript faster. It will always use the most up-to-date configuration and include all the common files. It's made for developers already familiar with Apify SDK and Crawlee libraries.

If you're looking for examples or want to learn how to use Apify, Apify SDK, or Crawlee, check out the other templates.

Resources

• Video tutorial on building a scraper using CheerioCrawler
• Written tutorial on building a scraper using CheerioCrawler
• How to scrape a dynamic page using Cheerio
• Video guide on getting data using Apify API
• Integration with GitHub, Zapier, Make, Google Drive and others
• A short guide on how to create Actors using code templates

Getting started

For complete information see this article. In short, you will:

1. Build the Actor
2. Run the Actor

Pull the Actor for local development

If you would like to develop locally, you can pull the existing Actor from Apify console using Apify CLI:

1. Install apify-cli

   Using Homebrew

   $brew install apify-cli
   

   Using NPM

   $npm -g install apify-cli
   

2. Pull the Actor by its unique <ActorId>, which is one of the following:

   • unique name of the Actor to pull (e.g. "apify/hello-world")
   • or ID of the Actor to pull (e.g. "E2jjCZBezvAZnX8Rb")

   You can find both by clicking on the Actor title at the top of the page, which will open a modal containing both Actor unique name and Actor ID.

   This command will copy the Actor into the current directory on your local machine.

   $apify pull <ActorId>
   

Documentation reference

To learn more about Apify and Actors, take a look at the following resources:

• Apify SDK for JavaScript documentation
• Apify SDK for Python documentation
• Apify Platform documentation
• Join our developer community on Discord