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Royi Namir
Royi Namir

Reputation: 148624

Using Puppeteer to get a handle to the new page after "_blank" click?

Looking at this simple code : 

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({headless: false});
const page: Page = await browser.newPage();
await page.evaluate((a) =>
                        {

                             //This will  open a new page :  
                            ([...document.querySelectorAll("a")][0] as HTMLElement).click();
                        });

If the clicked A(anchor) element has target="_blank" , then the page would be opened as a new page.

It's not the original page object.

Question:

How can I get the new page object after a user has clicked on <a target="_blank" ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3521

Answers (1)

Andrey Lushnikov
Andrey Lushnikov

Reputation: 3323

This can be done like this:

const [newTarget] = await Promise.all([
  // Await new target to be created with the proper opener
  new Promise(x => browser.on('targetcreated', target => {
    if (target.opener() !== page.target())
      return;
    browser.removeListener('targetcreated', arguments.callee);
    x();
  })),
  page.click('link'),
])
// Attach to the newly opened page.
const newPage = await newTarget.page();

Upvotes: 2

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