I am trying to scrape a dynamic site using puppeteer in node, but not able to click the required elements no matter what. Please help! Tried this too, but no luck: Answer It’s a <select>, you probably don’t want to click on it, but choose an option instead: Docs for page.select Triggers a ch…
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Puppeteer to invoke javascript function from an external .js file
Any one has a idea on how to invoke a javascript function from puppeteer which is not inline but in an external .js file. If its inline within the html->head->script tag it works but not if the script tag points to an external .js file Sample HTML File Sample Javascript file Puppeteer code sample Answer…
Puppeteer & cycling a process through multiple users
I’m trying to scrape information from a webpage behind a login wall for two users. As it stands, I’ve managed to get the code to do what I want for the first user i.e. go to webpage, login, gather the links associated with properties in a saved list, use that list to gather more details and log th…
Puppeteer: compare return result with a text file
So I have this code, which is now scraping the web and returns the result (message and username): Since the above code is scraping a website that is dynamically changing, what I’m trying to achieve is to avoid returning duplicate messages. One of the ways I thought it could be possible done is by: creat…
empty line breaks when trying to scrape with puppeteer
I was experimenting with puppeteer on youtube and I was trying to scrape the URL src and title text from the thumbnails of the youtube main page and the scraping program works fine. The issue is when it scrapes for the title and src of the thumbnails the program starts to jump lines when logging the URL src b…
How to fix the TypeError ‘Cannot read property ‘download’ of undefined’ from browser.downloads.download using Puppeteer
I am using puppeteer to login into my account of a content provider I work with and download a lot of zips. I can easily get the array with all the links I need to download then I loop through the array and use browser.downloads.download (code taken from MDN) to download each link. The problem is that even be…
how access returned values from client side and display them
I was experimenting with puppeteer and I built a simple scraper that gets information from youtube and it works fine what I was trying to add was to display that scraped information on my web page with <p> tags. Is there any way to do this? Where I’m am stuck is my name and avatarUrl variables are…
How do I return the value I scraped with pupeteer outside of my async function
I am coding a telegram bot using telegraph and I have been running into issues the whole day. What I was trying to do was to make my telegram bot receive the divided held amount and value to print the value of each token, but I cannot figure out how to return the value to bot. Also it throws an
how to launch puppeteer with an already existing profile multiple time
so am trying to launch puppeteer with already existed chrome profile and it works , but what i want to do is to launch the same process multiple time which throw an error (node:12820) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Failed to launch the browser process! [0311/152606.490:ERROR:chrome_main_delegate.cc(…
getting 302 when changing from local host to a proxy in puppeteer + Charles
so am using Charles’s external proxy setting and using puppeteer, the problem is when i put the proxy server in puppeteer as an local host every thing work fine and normally but when i close Charles and use another authenticated proxy the server return a statues of 302 and redirect me, i checked out the…