I am trying to write a page's content into a list with puppeteer.

My problem is too basic for other solutions out there. The reason I am failing is because I am too ignorant to get the resolved promise from an asynchronous function. I looked at the js documentation, I looked at similar answers, to no avail.

I also tried multiple ways to resolve the page.content() promise within the asynchronous function, still failing miserably.

async function getPageContent(website) {
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: false });
  const page = await browser.newPage();

  await page.goto(website, { waitUntil: "networkidle2" });
  const websiteContent = await page.content();
  await browser.close();

  return websiteContent;
}

var htmlList = [];
var ws = "/";
var googleHtml = getPageContent(ws);

htmlList.push(googleHtml);

console.log(htmlList);

The result is [Promise { pending }], which I understand is due to the promise status being unresolved. What I would like is the actual string of google's DOM.

Thank you for any help in this specific promise / async / puppeteer crash course.

I am trying to write a page's content into a list with puppeteer.

My problem is too basic for other solutions out there. The reason I am failing is because I am too ignorant to get the resolved promise from an asynchronous function. I looked at the js documentation, I looked at similar answers, to no avail.

I also tried multiple ways to resolve the page.content() promise within the asynchronous function, still failing miserably.

async function getPageContent(website) {
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: false });
  const page = await browser.newPage();

  await page.goto(website, { waitUntil: "networkidle2" });
  const websiteContent = await page.content();
  await browser.close();

  return websiteContent;
}

var htmlList = [];
var ws = "https://www.google./";
var googleHtml = getPageContent(ws);

htmlList.push(googleHtml);

console.log(htmlList);

The result is [Promise { pending }], which I understand is due to the promise status being unresolved. What I would like is the actual string of google's DOM.

Thank you for any help in this specific promise / async / puppeteer crash course.

• javascript
• node.js
• dom
• promise
• puppeteer

1 Answer 1

You have to await getPageContent:

var htmlList = [];
var ws = "https://www.google./";
var googleHtml = await getPageContent(ws);