module

Playwright::Request

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

page.on('request') emitted when the request is issued by the page. page.on('response') emitted when/if the response status and headers are received for the request. page.on('requestfinished') emitted when the response body is downloaded and the request is complete.

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.

Instance methods

failure

The method returns null unless this request has failed, as reported by requestfailed event. Example of logging of all the failed requests:

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frame

Returns the Frame that initiated this request.

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headers

An object with HTTP headers associated with the request. All header names are lower-case.

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is_navigation_request

Whether this request is driving frame's navigation.

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method

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

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post_data

Request's post body, if any.

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post_data_buffer

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

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redirected_from

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

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

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redirected_to

New request issued by the browser if the server responded with redirect. This method is the opposite of request.redirectedFrom():

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resource_type

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.

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response

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

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timing

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.

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url

URL of the request.

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Nested types