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puppeteer: How to wait for pages in SPA's?

I am trying to navigate through an SPA with puppeteer, the problem I am facing here is that I am unable to wait for the page to load then proceed with my program.

I fill a form and then click submit, depending on the contents of the form, different pages can be loaded so I can't use page.waitFor(Selector) as there can be many different pages depending on the input.

I tried using waitUntil: load, networkidle2, networkidle0, domcontentloaded but all of them trigger before the elements are loaded.

The page I am trying to automate is Link. (If you want to check for yourself, then choose booking reference and fill out random details and press continue.)

After choosing "booking-reference" in the link I fill in the details with puppeteer and then press the continue button, What I cannot figure out is how to wait for the page to be completely loaded without relying on selectors.

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Nagarjun Prasad Avatar asked Mar 26 '18 11:03

Nagarjun Prasad


1 Answers

I think you should know what those pages are and use Promise.race with page.waitFor for each page, like this:

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

const html = `
<html>
  <body>
    <div id="element"></div>
    <button id="button">load</button>

    <script>
      document.getElementById('button').addEventListener("click", () => {
        document.getElementById('element').innerHTML =
          '<div id="element' + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 3) + 1)  + '"></div>';
      });
    </script>
  </body>
</html>`;

(async () => {
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
  const page = await browser.newPage();
  await page.goto(`data:text/html,${html}`);

  await page.click('#button');

  const element = await Promise.race([
    page.waitFor('#element1'),
    page.waitFor('#element2'),
    page.waitFor('#element3')
  ]);

  console.log(await (await element.getProperty('id')).jsonValue());
  await browser.close();
})();
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Everettss Avatar answered Sep 20 '22 16:09

Everettss