Puppeteer wait until page is completely loaded
Sometimes the networkidle
events do not always give an indication that the page has completely loaded. There could still be a few JS scripts
modifying the content on the page. So watching for the completion of HTML
source code modifications by the browser seems to be yielding better results. Here's a function you could use -
const waitTillHTMLRendered = async (page, timeout = 30000) => {
const checkDurationMsecs = 1000;
const maxChecks = timeout / checkDurationMsecs;
let lastHTMLSize = 0;
let checkCounts = 1;
let countStableSizeIterations = 0;
const minStableSizeIterations = 3;
while(checkCounts++ <= maxChecks){
let html = await page.content();
let currentHTMLSize = html.length;
let bodyHTMLSize = await page.evaluate(() => document.body.innerHTML.length);
console.log('last: ', lastHTMLSize, ' <> curr: ', currentHTMLSize, " body html size: ", bodyHTMLSize);
if(lastHTMLSize != 0 && currentHTMLSize == lastHTMLSize)
countStableSizeIterations++;
else
countStableSizeIterations = 0; //reset the counter
if(countStableSizeIterations >= minStableSizeIterations) {
console.log("Page rendered fully..");
break;
}
lastHTMLSize = currentHTMLSize;
await page.waitForTimeout(checkDurationMsecs);
}
};
You could use this after the page load
/ click
function call and before you process the page content. e.g.
await page.goto(url, {'timeout': 10000, 'waitUntil':'load'});
await waitTillHTMLRendered(page)
const data = await page.content()
You can use page.waitForNavigation()
to wait for the new page to load completely before generating a PDF:
await page.goto(fullUrl, {
waitUntil: 'networkidle0',
});
await page.type('#username', 'scott');
await page.type('#password', 'tiger');
await page.click('#Login_Button');
await page.waitForNavigation({
waitUntil: 'networkidle0',
});
await page.pdf({
path: outputFileName,
displayHeaderFooter: true,
headerTemplate: '',
footerTemplate: '',
printBackground: true,
format: 'A4',
});
If there is a certain element that is generated dynamically that you would like included in your PDF, consider using page.waitForSelector()
to ensure that the content is visible:
await page.waitForSelector('#example', {
visible: true,
});