Access specific div using cheerio

Question

I am trying to use cheerio in order to access one string of characters that is within a div in HTML.

This is what the div looks like on the website:

<div class="_6wae">Only 5 Hours Left/div>

I have tried accessing the div using this code here:

let $ = cheerio.load(html);
const info = $('._6wae');
console.log(info.text());

When I run the JS it seems to work halfway... I get an empty line on the console where the text should be.

Thanks for the answers in advance!

Answer 1

Apparently, Facebook returns different payloads depending on the user agent header.

Try the following:

const cheerio = require('cheerio');
const request = require('request');
request({
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://www.facebook.com/donate/2486339634914015/',
  headers: {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0'
  }
}, function (error, response, body) {
  const $ = cheerio.load(body);
  var element = $('._6wae');
  console.log(element.text());
});

Although the above works, it's probably an ephemeral solutions as it's possible Facebook changes the _6wae class frequently.