Can I load a local html file with the cheerio package in node.js?

Question

I have a few html files on my harddrive that I\'d like to use jquery on to extract data from. Is this possible to do using cheerio? I\'ve tried giving cheerio the local pa

Answer 1

Extending damphat's answer to make it work for relative paths:

import fs from 'fs';
import path from 'path';

const filePath = path.join(__dirname, './path/to/file.html');
const $ = cheerio.load(fs.readFileSync(filePath));