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Cannot use import statement outside a module

I am following this guide:
https://developers.apify.com/academy/web-scraping-for-beginners/crawling/pro-scraping#crawlee-installation

I created new folder and run this:

npm install crawlee@latest

npm install crawlee@latest

Then I create crawlee.js with this:

import { CheerioCrawler } from 'crawlee';

import { CheerioCrawler } from 'crawlee';

console.log('Crawlee works!');

console.log('Crawlee works!');

Then I run this:

node crawlee.js

node crawlee.js

And I get this:

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
at Object.compileFunction (node:vm:352:18)
at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1033:15)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1069:27)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1159:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:77:12)
at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47

Why is that?

Cannot use import statement outside a module

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