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Hagalaz
Hagalaz

Reputation: 109

How to prevent new tab creation in puppeteer's chromium instance?

I would like to prevent new tab creation. Either by clicking 'new tab button' either by window.open method. Is there any way to listen on new tab creation. I don't mean 'targetcreated' event because then tab is already created. Maybe there is something similar to event.preventDefault?

Below is a very simple code that closes every new tab but I think it's very ugly and I want to improve it.

browser.on('targetcreated', (target) => {
    function closeNewTabs(target) {
      let targetBrowser = target.browser();
      targetBrowser.pages().then(data => {
          if (data.length>1) {
              for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
                  if (i>1) data[i].close();
              }
          }
      })
    }
})

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4196

Answers (1)

angrykoala
angrykoala

Reputation: 4064

A possible workaround would be to listen to targetcreated event and then page.close

It would be something similar to

browser.on("targetcreated", async (target)=>{
   const page=await target.page();
   if(page) page.close();
});

It doesn't prevent creating new tabs, but it should close them immediately after opening

Upvotes: 5

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