Cheerio Scraper
By Apify · Free · ApifyIntel score 85/100
Published 2019-04-16 · Last updated 2026-09-03
Crawls websites using raw HTTP requests, parses the HTML with the Cheerio library, and extracts data from the pages using a Node.js code. Supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs. This actor is a high-performance alternative to apify/web-scraper for websites that do not require JavaScript.
Key stats
- 60.2M total runs
- 25.1K total users
- 4.75 Apify Store rating (38 reviews)
- 313 bookmarks
How Cheerio Scraper has moved
ApifyIntel has recorded Cheerio Scraper in 270 daily snapshots of the Apify Store since 2025-11-21. Latest reading: 2026-10-09.
- 1,430 monthly users, up 21% from 1,184 on 2026-09-09, up 19% from 1,202 on 2026-07-11
- 1.3M runs in the last 30 days, 99.3% of them succeeded (30 days earlier: 833.4K runs, 99.3% succeeded)
- 1.3M runs added to the lifetime total since 2026-09-09 (now 60.2M)
- Ranked #88 of 73,887 actors by monthly users, the same place as on 2026-09-09
- Apify Store rating 4.75 from 38 reviews (4.58 from 30 on 2026-07-11)
Alternatives to Cheerio Scraper
Actors sharing the most Apify Store categories with Cheerio Scraper, then closest to its 1,430 monthly users.
- Web Scraper: 1,335 monthly users (about the same as Cheerio Scraper), free, rated 4.7 on the Apify Store
- Website Screenshot Generator: 1,197 monthly users (84% of Cheerio Scraper), free, rated 3.9 on the Apify Store
- Puppeteer Scraper: 1,043 monthly users (73% of Cheerio Scraper), free, rated 5.0 on the Apify Store
- Playwright Scraper: 3,521 monthly users (2.5× Cheerio Scraper), free, rated 3.8 on the Apify Store
- Hello World Example: 320 monthly users (22% of Cheerio Scraper), free, rated 5.0 on the Apify Store
- Merge, Dedup & Transform Datasets: 103 monthly users (7% of Cheerio Scraper), free, rated 5.0 on the Apify Store