fromURL, loadBuffer, decodeStream missing

[edemaine]

The documentation says that this should work:

import * as cheerio from 'cheerio';
cheerio.fromURL('https://example.com')

or

require('cheerio').fromURL('https://example.com')

However, cheerio does not appear to have a fromURL property, in the released NPM version 1.0.0-rc.12. Perhaps related to #2774? Similarly, decodeStream which fromURL is built on, loadBuffer, stringStream all seem to be missing. I have contains, load, html, merge, parseHTML, root, text, xml.

As a first-time user to Cheerio, this was pretty confusing, as it seems like the easiest way to get started with the library.

[AlGhaliyahM]

@edemaine I have faced the same issue and revert to cheerio documentation. As per the documentation
Only the load method is available by default. If you are using current NodeJS version, other methods will be available if you use an ES Module imports (your file has a .mjs extension, or you have type: "module" in your package.json). You can also directly import or require cheerio/lib/batteries.

I have directly imported cheerio/lib/batteries to use fromUrl property but it seems to be missing.

[edemaine]

FWIW, I'm already using ESM via type: "module". The word fromURL does not appear in any files within node_modules/cheerio, so my guess is that it's an issue of code not yet published to NPM.

[fb55]

This hasn't been released yet — as the banner at the top of the website says:

Cheerio's website is still a work-in-progress, and covers Cheerio's next release that isn't available yet.

I want to wrap up work on the website before issuing the release, but haven't been able to focus on that for a while.

[edemaine]

Thanks for confirming! I'm new to Cheerio so it was just a confusing on-boarding experience. (I just wrote my own fromURL for now.)

The site looks great! Let me know if there's something you could use help with. I did have a docs wording suggestion for newcomers, so I'll go make a PR.

[michaelfaith]

Would love for this to become GA. It's such a great option for us

[realChakrawarti]

Coming to this after 4 months,
Any update on this? Wasted quite a few minutes to figure out what's wrong with my setup.

Please flag the docs accordingly: https://cheerio.js.org/docs/api#fromurl. Will raise a PR if required.

[laygir]

I do not see any implementation of fromURL in the package I get from npm. And unable to require from cheerio/lib/batteries as it does not appear to exist. What am I missing?

[michaelfaith]

As they said, it hasn't been released yet

[krel99]

It does appear that new loading documents have still not been released. I am upvoting this as it is confusing to work with a documentation of "future" when building tools for today.