I need to create playwright API request with x-www-form-urlencoded body: Example from postman: working postman request example

I was trying to it that way:

  async getNewApiAccesToken({request})
    {
        const postResponse = await request.post("//token",{
            ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
            FormData: {
                'client_id': 'xyz',
                'client_secret': 'xyz',
                'grant_type': 'client_credentials',
                'scope': 'api://xyz'
            }
        })
        console.log(await postResponse.json());
        return postResponse;

I need to create playwright API request with x-www-form-urlencoded body: Example from postman: working postman request example

I was trying to it that way:

  async getNewApiAccesToken({request})
    {
        const postResponse = await request.post("https://login.microsoftonline.//token",{
            ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
            FormData: {
                'client_id': 'xyz',
                'client_secret': 'xyz',
                'grant_type': 'client_credentials',
                'scope': 'api://xyz'
            }
        })
        console.log(await postResponse.json());
        return postResponse;

But it is not working :/ Could you tell me how can i pose this kind of request in playwright?

• javascript
• typescript
• playwright
• playwright-test
• x-www-form-urlencoded

2 Answers 2

Ok, i found a solution!

 async getNewApiAccesToken({request})
    {
        const formData = new URLSearchParams();
        formData.append('grant_type', 'client_credentials');
        formData.append('client_secret', '8xyz');
        formData.append('client_id', 'xyz');
        formData.append('scope', 'api://xyz/.default');
        const postResponse = await request.post("https://login.microsoftonline./9xyz/v2.0/token",{
            ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
            headers:{
                'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
              },    
            data: formData.toString()  
        })
        return postResponse;
        
    };

I think you can try this:

await request.post('https://login.microsoftonline./9xyz/v2.0/token', {
  headers:{
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
  },  
  form: {
    grant_type: 'client_credentials',
    client_secret: '8xyz',
    client_id: 'xyz',
    scope: 'api://xyz/.default'
  }
});

According to the documentation:

"To send form data to the server use form option. Its value will be encoded into the request body with application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding"

https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-apirequestcontext#api-request-context-post