Having hard time scraping a cell with Cheerio - node.js

Question

I'm trying to scrape a cell from a table but I'm having a hard time and I'm probably doing something wrong because I get an empty result in the console(literally nothing).
Here's the HTML:
I'm trying to get the <td class="center bold storing_1">1</td>.
Here's my code:
const rp = require('request-promise');
const cheerio = require('cheerio');
const url = 'MY URL';
rp(url)
.then(function(html) {
$ = cheerio.load(body);
console.log($('#table_results tbody tr:nth-child(1) td.center.bold.sorting_1')).text();
})
.catch(function(err) {
});
Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

Answer 1

I think your code is actually ok, I think you just have a few typos in it.
You are parsing 'body' rather than 'html'
You are reading .text() from the result of console.log() rather than the cheerio object ($).
If you try the code below it should work:
const rp = require('request-promise');
const cheerio = require('cheerio');
const url = 'MY URL';
rp(url).then(function(html) {
$ = cheerio.load(html);
console.log("Result:", $('#table_results tbody tr:nth-child(1) td.center.bold.sorting_1').text());
})
.catch(function(err) {
console.error("An error occurred:", err);
});
Html I'm testing with:
Test html
<table id="table_results">
<thead></thead>
<tbody>
<tr ajax-controller="community">
<td class="center bold sorting_1">1</td>
<td class="center bold sorting_1">2</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Simple test setup:
You can play around with this to see how editing the selector changes things:
const testHtml =
`<table id="table_results">
<thead></thead>
<tbody>
<tr ajax-controller="community">
<td class="center bold sorting_1">1</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>`;
$ = cheerio.load(testHtml);
console.log("Result:", $('#table_results tbody tr:nth-child(1) td.center.bold.sorting_1').text());