[FIXED] How to wait for all downloads to complete with Puppeteer?

Issue

I have a small web scraping application that downloads multiple files from a web application where the URLs require visting the page.

It works fine if I keep the browser instance alive in between runs, but I want to close the instance in between runs. When I call browser.close() my downloads are stopped because the chrome instance is closed before the downloads have finished.

Does puppeteer provide a way to check if downloads are still active, and wait for them to complete? I've tried page.waitForNavigation({ waitUntil: "networkidle0" }) and "networkidle2", but those seem to wait indefinitely.

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• node.js 8.10
• puppeteer 1.10.0

Solution

Tried doing an await page.waitFor(50000); with a time as long as the download should take.

Or look at watching for file changes on complete file transfer

Answered By - Hellonearthis

Answer Checked By - Cary Denson (PHPFixing Admin)