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Mostafa Sobh
Mostafa Sobh

Reputation: 49

Puppeteer wait for keyboard.type to finish typing long text

I am using puppeteer for scraping a website.

I only have simple problem with the following code:

await page.keyboard.type(data)
await page.click(buttonSelector)

The first line types really long text and I want the second line which is the submit button click to wait until typing is finished.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6628

Answers (2)

KhalfaniW
KhalfaniW

Reputation: 672

This will wait for any length of input and continue as quickly as possible.

const textbox = await page.$(".selector");
await textbox.type(textToType);
await page.waitForFunction(
  (element, textToType) => {
    return element.value === textToType;
  },
  {}, // here you can customize how it waits (use polling,etc.)
  textbox,
  textToType
);

Upvotes: 0

Mikhail Zub
Mikhail Zub

Reputation: 474

Try to use:

await page.type(".your-selector", "your data", {delay: 10})

and set the required delay or as an alternative:

await page.evaluate(() => document.querySelector(".your-selector").value = "your data")

Upvotes: 3

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