cheeriojs/cheerio
The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.
30.5k stars · 1.7k forks · TypeScript
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 72% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
- Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.; Most commits in the last year come from bots.)
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 17
- Human commits, 90 days
- 33
- Human commits, 365 days
- 67
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 89%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (16 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 10
- Last release
- Jan 23, 2026 (8 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 6 recent issues, 17% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 5 days.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
- Most commits in the last year come from bots.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 57 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 5
- Contributors
- 153
Top committers
- fb55: 72% of commits
- vojtisprime11: 4% of commits
- bartlomieju: 2% of commits
- Copilot: 2% of commits
- Hashim1999164: 2% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Aug 25, 2013 to Aug 28, 2013: about 119 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 18, 2014 to Aug 19, 2014: about 35 more stars than usual, peak 27 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 1 stars on a repo created before February 2013 have no date, so they aren't in the chart.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- 1 stars on the creation day are undated (before 2013-02-10) and are not counted.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- cheerio (NPM): latest 1.2.0, published Jan 23, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 8.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
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[](https://reporadar.ai/cheeriojs/cheerio)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Computed 11 hours ago · method 2026.10.2