How can I get the raw download size of a request using Puppeteer?
There doesn't seem to be any way to do this as of January 2018 that works with all resource types (listening for the response
event fails for videos), and that correctly counts compressed resources.
The best workaround seems to be to listen for the Network.dataReceived
event, and process the event manually:
const resources = {};
page._client.on('Network.dataReceived', (event) => {
const request = page._networkManager._requestIdToRequest.get(
event.requestId
);
if (request && request.url().startsWith('data:')) {
return;
}
const url = request.url();
// encodedDataLength is supposed to be the amount of data received
// over the wire, but it's often 0, so just use dataLength for consistency.
// https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Network/#event-dataReceived
// const length = event.encodedDataLength > 0 ?
// event.encodedDataLength : event.dataLength;
const length = event.dataLength;
if (url in resources) {
resources[url] += length;
} else {
resources[url] = length;
}
});
// page.goto(...), etc.
// totalCompressedBytes is unavailable; see comment above
const totalUncompressedBytes = Object.values(resources).reduce((a, n) => a + n, 0);