How to get the text

I have some html to scrape.

<div class="content">
  <strong> This is first content </strong> This is second content
  <br />
  <small>
    <p>Something</p>
  </small>
</div>

how to get the This is second content with cheerio ?

Using nodeType property, it could solve your problem even if you have text before <strong> tag

<div class="content">
  Before first content
  <strong> This is first content </strong> This is second content
  <br />
  <small>
    <p>Something</p>
  </small>
</div>

Then it could be

var cheerio = require("cheerio")
const $ = cheerio.load('<div class="content">Before first content<strong> This is first content </strong> This is second content<br /><small><p>Something</p></small></div>');

var $outer = $("div.content").contents().filter(function() {
    return this.nodeType === 3;
});

console.log($outer.text()); //"Before first content This is second content"

$outer.each(function() {
    console.log($(this).text());
});
//"Before first content"
//" This is second content"

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