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
- 60.1M 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 269 daily snapshots of the Apify Store since 2025-11-21. Latest reading: 2026-10-08.
- 1,430 monthly users, up 21% from 1,184 on 2026-09-08, up 18% from 1,210 on 2026-07-10
- 1.3M runs in the last 30 days, 99.3% of them succeeded (30 days earlier: 825.0K runs, 99.3% succeeded)
- 1.3M runs added to the lifetime total since 2026-09-08 (now 60.1M)
- Ranked #88 of 72,628 actors by monthly users, up 1 place since 2026-09-08
- Apify Store rating 4.75 from 38 reviews (4.64 from 29 on 2026-07-10)
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: 1,195 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: 3,520 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