Cheerio`text（）`空字符串用于span标签

Question

I've loaded to Cheerio a product from belk.com . I can get to the price element using the selector [class="price"] , but when I try to get its text using text() , I get an empty string.

If I do $('class="price"').contents() I can see a child with the text, but it seems like the wrong way to go. Is there a generic method to getting the element text?

Thanks!

Answer 1

That HTML has both p and span tags with class price , so you'll need to be more specific. This works for me $('p.price span.price').text()

Answer 2

Apparently, this is expected node REPL behavior.

The values tested negative for null and in debugger mode I could see the scraped value from Cheerio. Because it contained \\r characters, printing it to console looked as if it's an empty string.