A couple common usecases for getting jquery-like for scraping, in node, from GET request

cheerio_fetches.js

const cheerio = require('cheerio')
const fetch = require('node-fetch')

// get Authorization header for basc auth
const basicAuth = (username, password) => 'Basic ' + Buffer.from(`${encodeURIComponent(username)}:${encodeURIComponent(password)}`).toString('base64')

// get jquery-like object
const f$ = (url, options = {}) => fetch(url, options)
  .then(r => r.text())
  .then(r => cheerio.load(r))

const example = async () => {
  const $ = await f$('https://blah')
  // do jquery-type stuff here
  $('a')

   // basic auth
   const $$ = await f$('https://blah', { headers: { authorization: basicAuth(username, password) }, credentials: 'include' })
   
   // do jquery-type stuff here
   $$('a')
}
example()