I need to get a script using cherrio (not get text) [duplicate]

Question

I am scrapping a page and I need to get a json from a script tag the script tag seens like

<template data-type="json" data-varname="__STATE__"> 
<script>
{
 "someJson": here 
}
</script>    
</template>

I got the value with something like this using jquery in browser

 $('template[data-varname="__STATE__"]').content.children[0]

and i got the value with something like that on my node code

const listItems = await $('template[data-varname="__STATE__"]');
await fs.promises.writeFile('site.html', listItems.html())

but my return is only a script like this

   <script>
    {
     "someJson": here 
    }
    </script>  

inside a html file but I would like to get the json and already be able to use

Answer 1

I got what I wanted as follows

const listItems = await $('template[data-varname="__STATE__"]');
const scriptItem = await  listItems.html()
const removeScript = scriptItem.replace("<script>","").replace("</script>","")
const jsonFromScript = JSON.parse(removeScript)

However this is not a solution that I like, if anyone knows a more "correct" way to do it I would be grateful