Using puppeteer, how could you programmatically submit a form? So far I've been able to do this using page.click('.input[type="submit"]')
if the form actually includes a submit input. But for forms that don't include a submit input, focusing on the form text input element and using page.press('Enter')
doesn't seem to actually cause the form to submit:
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
(async() => {
const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto('https://stackoverflow.com/', {waitUntil: 'load'});
console.log(page.url());
// Type our query into the search bar
await page.focus('.js-search-field');
await page.type('puppeteer');
// Submit form
await page.press('Enter');
// Wait for search results page to load
await page.waitForNavigation({waitUntil: 'load'});
console.log('FOUND!', page.url());
// Extract the results from the page
const links = await page.evaluate(() => {
const anchors = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.result-link a'));
return anchors.map(anchor => anchor.textContent);
});
console.log(links.join('\n'));
browser.close();
})();
If you are attempting to fill out and submit a login form, you can use the following:
await page.goto('https://www.example.com/login');
await page.type('#username', 'username');
await page.type('#password', 'password');
await page.click('#submit');
await page.waitForNavigation();
console.log('New Page URL:', page.url());