How to use fetch within a for-loop, wait for results and then console.log it

Question

i have this problem: i want to make multiple fetch calls within a for-loop. The number of calls depend on the user input (in my example i have three). How can i make it loop through all the fetch requests and then console.log the number off calls?

function getPosts(){

  let url = ["https://www.freecodecamp.org", "https://www.test.de/, http://www.test2.com"];
  let array = new Array;

  for (let i = 0; i < url.length; i++) {
    console.log(url[i]);
    fetch(url[i])
    .then(res => {return res.text(); })
    .then(res => {
            let reg = /\<meta name="description" content\=\"(.+?)\"/;
            res = res.match(reg);
            array.push(res);
            console.log(res);
          }
    )
    .catch(status, err => {return console.log(status, err);})
  }
  console.log (array.length);
  }

It console.logs 0 instead of 3, cause it doesn't wait for all the promises to be resolved. How can i make it to console.log 3? If you know a solution, please help me out.

Answer 1

You can't call console.log(array.length) until after the promises are all done. So why not something like this?

let url = ["https://www.freecodecamp.org", "https://www.test.de/, http://www.test2.com"];
  let array = new Array;
  var fetches = [];
  for (let i = 0; i < url.length; i++) {
    console.log(url[i]);
    fetches.push(
      fetch(url[i])
      .then(res => {return res.text(); })
      .then(res => {
            let reg = /\<meta name="description" content\=\"(.+?)\"/;
            res = res.match(reg);
            array.push(res);
            console.log(res);
          }
      )
      .catch(status, err => {return console.log(status, err);})
    );
  }
  Promise.all(fetches).then(function() {
    console.log (array.length);
  });
  }

Promise.all waits for all the fetches to finish, THEN it'll print the #.