gulp-cheerio

This is a plugin for gulp which allows you to manipulate HTML and XML files using cheerio.

Usage

There are two ways to use gulp-cheerio: synchronous and asynchronous. See the following usage examples:

var gulp = require('gulp'),
  cheerio = require('gulp-cheerio');
 
gulp.task('sync', function() {
  return gulp
    .src(['src/*.html'])
    .pipe(
      cheerio(function($, file) {
        // Each file will be run through cheerio and each corresponding `$` will be passed here.
        // `file` is the gulp file object
        // Make all h1 tags uppercase
        $('h1').each(function() {
          var h1 = $(this);
          h1.text(h1.text().toUpperCase());
        });
      }),
    )
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist/'));
});
 
gulp.task('async', function() {
  return gulp
    .src(['src/*.html'])
    .pipe(
      cheerio(function($, file, done) {
        // The only difference here is the inclusion of a `done` parameter.
        // Call `done` when everything is finished. `done` accepts an error if applicable.
        done();
      }),
    )
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist/'));
});

Additional options can be passed by passing an object as the main argument with your function as the run option:

var gulp = require('gulp'),
  cheerio = require('gulp-cheerio');
 
gulp.task('sync', function() {
  return gulp
    .src(['src/*.html'])
    .pipe(
      cheerio({
        run: function($, file) {
          // Each file will be run through cheerio and each corresponding `$` will be passed here.
          // `file` is the gulp file object
          // Make all h1 tags uppercase
          $('h1').each(function() {
            var h1 = $(this);
            h1.text(h1.text().toUpperCase());
          });
        },
      }),
    )
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist/'));
});
 
gulp.task('async', function() {
  return gulp
    .src(['src/*.html'])
    .pipe(
      cheerio({
        run: function($, file, done) {
          // The only difference here is the inclusion of a `done` parameter.
          // Call `done` when everything is finished. `done` accepts an error if applicable.
          done();
        },
      }),
    )
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist/'));
});

If you want to use custom parser options simply use the parserOptions option:

cheerio({
  run: function() {},
  parserOptions: {
    // Options here
  },
});

When the xmlMode option is set to true cheerio's $.xml() method will be used to render:

cheerio({
  run: function() {},
  parserOptions: {
    xmlMode: true,
  },
});

This module includes cheerio version 0.*. If you want to use your own special build / version of cheerio, you can pass it in as an option:

cheerio({
  cheerio: require('my-cheerio'), // special version of `cheerio`
});

As of version 0.4.0 the parsed $ object returned from cheerio.load(...) is cached to gulp's file object as file.cheerio. gulp-cheerio will look for file.cheerio before attempting to use cheerio.load(...). This means that if you use gulp-cheerio multiple times in the same stream or with another plugin that supports caching cheerio in this fashion (such as gulp-svgstore) each file will only be parsed once.

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2014 Kenneth Powers

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.