innerText should match the rendered appearance

[mattfysh]

import * as cheerio from 'cheerio';

const res = await fetch('https://example.com');
const body = await res.text();

const $ = cheerio.load(body);

console.log(JSON.stringify($('p').text()));

The output is:

This domain is for use in illustrative examples in documents. You may use this\n domain in literature without prior coordination or asking for permission.

The newline character followed by excessive spacing is present only in the HTML source. Generally the innerText will render this property, e.g. use Chrome to visit example.com and select the same element, then try $0.innerText and you'll get:

This domain is for use in illustrative examples in documents. You may use this domain in literature without prior coordination or asking for permission.

[fb55]

Both are equivalent when outputting HTML. Cheerio implements the serialisation part of the HTML spec, which leads to code like this. Changing it leads to incompatibilities.

You can manually fix whitespace using .replace(/\s+/g, ' ').