How to switch between tabs with Puppeteer?

Question

Here is my use case:

I have a link which on clicking opens a new tab and loads the content.

What I am looking for:

Is there a way to switch the refe

Answer 1

To get the page that was opened after a link is clicked, you can listen on the popup event. It is emitted when the page opens a new tab or window.

Code sample (from the docs linked above)

const [newPage] = await Promise.all([
    new Promise(resolve => page.once('popup', resolve)),
    page.click('a[target=_blank]'),
]);

This will click on the link while waiting for a window to be opened by the current page. newPage will be the opened page.

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Alternative approach: To get a list of all open pages, you can use browser.pages:

const pages = await browser.pages();

pages will be an array with all open pages.