Accessing variables inside a Javascript promise chain

Question

I am using a chained promise in JavaScript (I think). There is a then() function in the chain. I want to access the variable inside the promise, or somehow return the variable via my HTTP response object.

var getTitle = function(response)
{
    console.log("Starting getTitle. response: " + response); //this works

    var horseman = new Horseman();           // object for headless browser

    horseman
        .userAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0")
        .open('http://www.google.com/ncr')
        .type('input[name="q"]', 'github')
        .click("button:contains('Google Search')")  
        .keyboardEvent("keypress",16777221) // press Enter
        .waitForSelector("div.g")        
        .title()            // gets the title of the page
        .then(function(t) {
            console.log("title: " + t);     // this works
        })
        .close();

    console.log("title outside: " + t);     // this gives 'undefined'

    return t;          // returns 'undefined'
}

How can I extract the 't' variable? I also tried passing 'response' into the function like

.then(function(t, response) {

But when I log 'response', it is undefined. If I could pass in the response object somehow, that would also work.

If I do

var test = horseman...

test becomes a promise object, but it doesn't contain the t variable.

Answer 1

Try returning from within a .finally().

    .finally(function(t){
        return t;
    });