Interface Request

Whenever the page sends a request for a network resource the following sequence of events are emitted by Page:

If request fails at some point, then instead of 'requestfinished' event (and possibly instead of 'response' event), the page.on('requestfailed') event is emitted.

NOTE HTTP Error responses, such as 404 or 503, are still successful responses from HTTP standpoint, so request will complete with 'requestfinished' event.

If request gets a 'redirect' response, the request is successfully finished with the requestfinished event, and a new request is issued to a redirected url.

Hierarchy

  • Request

Methods

  • An object with all the request HTTP headers associated with this request. The header names are lower-cased.

    Returns Promise<{
        [key: string]: string;
    }>

  • The method returns null unless this request has failed, as reported by requestfailed event.

    Usage

    Example of logging of all the failed requests:

    page.on('requestfailed', request => {
    console.log(request.url() + ' ' + request.failure().errorText);
    });

    Returns {
        errorText: string;
    }

    • errorText: string

      Human-readable error message, e.g. 'net::ERR_FAILED'.

  • Returns the Frame that initiated this request.

    Usage

    const frameUrl = request.frame().url();
    

    Details

    Note that in some cases the frame is not available, and this method will throw.

    • When request originates in the Service Worker. You can use request.serviceWorker() to check that.
    • When navigation request is issued before the corresponding frame is created. You can use request.isNavigationRequest() to check that.

    Here is an example that handles all the cases:

    if (request.serviceWorker())
    console.log(`request ${request.url()} from a service worker`);
    else if (request.isNavigationRequest())
    console.log(`request ${request.url()} is a navigation request`);
    else
    console.log(`request ${request.url()} from a frame ${request.frame().url()}`);

    Returns Frame

  • Returns the value of the header matching the name. The name is case insensitive.

    Parameters

    • name: string

      Name of the header.

    Returns Promise<string>

  • An object with the request HTTP headers. The header names are lower-cased. Note that this method does not return security-related headers, including cookie-related ones. You can use request.allHeaders() for complete list of headers that include cookie information.

    Returns {
        [key: string]: string;
    }

    • [key: string]: string
  • An array with all the request HTTP headers associated with this request. Unlike request.allHeaders(), header names are NOT lower-cased. Headers with multiple entries, such as Set-Cookie, appear in the array multiple times.

    Returns Promise<{
        name: string;
        value: string;
    }[]>

  • Whether this request is driving frame's navigation.

    Some navigation requests are issued before the corresponding frame is created, and therefore do not have request.frame() available.

    Returns boolean

  • Request's method (GET, POST, etc.)

    Returns string

  • Request's post body, if any.

    Returns string

  • Request's post body in a binary form, if any.

    Returns Buffer

  • Returns parsed request's body for form-urlencoded and JSON as a fallback if any.

    When the response is application/x-www-form-urlencoded then a key/value object of the values will be returned. Otherwise it will be parsed as JSON.

    Returns any

  • Request that was redirected by the server to this one, if any.

    When the server responds with a redirect, Playwright creates a new Request object. The two requests are connected by redirectedFrom() and redirectedTo() methods. When multiple server redirects has happened, it is possible to construct the whole redirect chain by repeatedly calling redirectedFrom().

    Usage

    For example, if the website http://example.com redirects to https://example.com:

    const response = await page.goto('http://example.com');
    console.log(response.request().redirectedFrom().url()); // 'http://example.com'

    If the website https://google.com has no redirects:

    const response = await page.goto('https://google.com');
    console.log(response.request().redirectedFrom()); // null

    Returns Request

  • New request issued by the browser if the server responded with redirect.

    Usage

    This method is the opposite of request.redirectedFrom():

    console.log(request.redirectedFrom().redirectedTo() === request); // true
    

    Returns Request

  • Contains the request's resource type as it was perceived by the rendering engine. ResourceType will be one of the following: document, stylesheet, image, media, font, script, texttrack, xhr, fetch, eventsource, websocket, manifest, other.

    Returns string

  • Returns the matching Response object, or null if the response was not received due to error.

    Returns Promise<Response>

  • The Service Worker that is performing the request.

    Details

    This method is Chromium only. It's safe to call when using other browsers, but it will always be null.

    Requests originated in a Service Worker do not have a request.frame() available.

    Returns Worker

  • Returns resource size information for given request.

    Returns Promise<{
        requestBodySize: number;
        requestHeadersSize: number;
        responseBodySize: number;
        responseHeadersSize: number;
    }>

  • Returns resource timing information for given request. Most of the timing values become available upon the response, responseEnd becomes available when request finishes. Find more information at Resource Timing API.

    Usage

    const requestFinishedPromise = page.waitForEvent('requestfinished');
    await page.goto('http://example.com');
    const request = await requestFinishedPromise;
    console.log(request.timing());

    Returns {
        connectEnd: number;
        connectStart: number;
        domainLookupEnd: number;
        domainLookupStart: number;
        requestStart: number;
        responseEnd: number;
        responseStart: number;
        secureConnectionStart: number;
        startTime: number;
    }

    • connectEnd: number

      Time immediately before the user agent starts establishing the connection to the server to retrieve the resource. The value is given in milliseconds relative to startTime, -1 if not available.

    • connectStart: number

      Time immediately before the user agent starts establishing the connection to the server to retrieve the resource. The value is given in milliseconds relative to startTime, -1 if not available.

    • domainLookupEnd: number

      Time immediately after the browser starts the domain name lookup for the resource. The value is given in milliseconds relative to startTime, -1 if not available.

    • domainLookupStart: number

      Time immediately before the browser starts the domain name lookup for the resource. The value is given in milliseconds relative to startTime, -1 if not available.

    • requestStart: number

      Time immediately before the browser starts requesting the resource from the server, cache, or local resource. The value is given in milliseconds relative to startTime, -1 if not available.

    • responseEnd: number

      Time immediately after the browser receives the last byte of the resource or immediately before the transport connection is closed, whichever comes first. The value is given in milliseconds relative to startTime, -1 if not available.

    • responseStart: number

      Time immediately after the browser receives the first byte of the response from the server, cache, or local resource. The value is given in milliseconds relative to startTime, -1 if not available.

    • secureConnectionStart: number

      Time immediately before the browser starts the handshake process to secure the current connection. The value is given in milliseconds relative to startTime, -1 if not available.

    • startTime: number

      Request start time in milliseconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC

  • URL of the request.

    Returns string

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