HTML Scraping with Cheerio

I have a hard time finding out how to iterate the children of paragraph elements using Cheerio.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, this is me - Daniel</p>
<p><strong>Hello</strong>, this is me - Daniel</p>
<p>Hello, <strong>this is me</strong> - Daniel</p>
<p>Hello, this is me - <strong>Norbert</strong></p>
<p><strong>Hello</strong>, this is me - <strong>Daniel</strong></p>
</body>
</html>

Using find('*') or children('*'), Cheerio only returns the <strong> tags but not the plain-text one's.

What I need is a list of all nested elements (beneath <p>) including the plain text.

Solution

Try contents():

const cheerio = require("cheerio"); // 1.0.0-rc.12

const html = `
<p>Hello, this is me - Daniel</p>
<p><strong>Hello</strong>, this is me - Daniel</p>
<p>Hello, <strong>this is me</strong> - Daniel</p>
<p>Hello, this is me - <strong>Norbert</strong></p>
<p><strong>Hello</strong>, this is me - <strong>Daniel</strong></p>
`;
const $ = cheerio.load(html);
const text = [...$("p").contents()].map(e => $(e).text());
console.log(text);

Output:

[
  'Hello, this is me - Daniel',
  'Hello',
  ', this is me - Daniel',
  'Hello, ',
  'this is me',
  ' - Daniel',
  'Hello, this is me - ',
  'Norbert',
  'Hello',
  ', this is me - ',
  'Daniel'
]