How to wait until all network activity on a particular page has stopped before continuing?

[saadahmad03]

I was wondering if there is a way to wait until all network activity has become idle (without navigation, refreshing, or going to a new page) as the application I am writing tests for requires all API requests to complete first before some buttons become clickable etc.

I am currently doing stuff like await page.waitFor(10000) and so on but I don't think this is the best solution.

Is there any way I can write code that would act something like this:

await page.waitFor({ waitUntil: networkidle })

Any insight would be appreciated, thanks so much in advance!

[rogervanwile]

Hi @saadahmad03 ,

there is a options argument by calling page.goto. In these options you can set waitUntil to networkidle2.

await page.goto(url, {waitUntil: 'networkidle2'});

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/api.md#pagegotourl-options

[saadahmad03]

Hi @rogervanwile, thank you for your response. I was actually wondering if there was an option to do
{ waitUntil: 'networkidle2 } without having to go to a new page, and to perform this operation on the current page.

[aslushnikov]

@saadahmad03 thanks for the clarification. This has been requested for a while already; filed a designated bug report for it: #3083. Feel free to upvote.

[ralyodio]

can i do this with await page.mouse.click(pos.x+pos.width/2, pos.y+pos.height/2);?