How can one parse HTML server-side with Meteor?

Question

I want to be able to scrape links out of an HTML page that I am fetching with the Meteor.http method. Would be ideal to use jQuery on the server-side but I don\'t think this

Answer 1

Use cheerio, as Akshat suggests, but I would recommend a different way of using it, as of now, for Meteor 0.8.0.

First, install npm for Meteor:

$ mrt add npm

Then modify packages.json to (of course you can have different version of cheerio, or other node packages as well):

{
  "cheerio": "0.15.0"
}

In server.js (or any other file, in server-side code) start:

var cheerio =  Meteor.require('cheerio');

The use cheerio in a way you like.

Upon running $ meteor it will automatically install cheerio.