# v0.103.0: `cheerio` is now deprecated
The `api.cheerio` library is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.

## Reasoning

Cheerio is only used for the scripting API while the server internally uses `node-html-parser` for HTML parsing. Removing `cheerio` reduces bundle size and maintenance overhead.

## Migration

Before (`cheerio`):

```javascript
const $ = api.cheerio.load(html);
const title = $('h1').text();
const links = $('a').map((i, el) => $(el).attr('href')).get();
```

After (`htmlParser`):

```javascript
const root = api.htmlParser.parse(html);
const title = root.querySelector('h1')?.textContent;
const links = root.querySelectorAll('a').map(a => a.getAttribute('href'));
```