Is it possible to capture XHR response data using WebDriver

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I'm writing small bot using Selenium WebDriver. Is it possible to capture data from response of XmlHttpRequests using browsermob-proxy or any different way? I need to inspect received data from POST/GET queries. Actually question more related to functionality of browsermob-proxy and I couldn't find an answer.

were u able to find answer to this question? – proprius Jan 07 '16 at 06:10 — proprius, Jan 07 '16 at 06:10
Any updates on this question? – Dimitri Jan 09 '19 at 18:29 — Dimitri, Jan 09 '19 at 18:29

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '19 at 21:01

I believe the answer is no, but you could have Selenium execute javascript to send the post/get and retrieve the response headers... I use something like this to display errors (jqXHR is jQuery's response XML object: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/#jqXHR)

$.post(destURL, formresult, function (data) {

//... process return data

}).fail(function (jqXHR, textStatus, error) {
    DisplayError(jqXHR, textStatus, error);


});

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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I can only imagine the usual methods to intercept AJAX calls with Javascript or GreaseMonkey. I had fine results with this solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6805461/3034120 You can replace the output to log to create a div and fill it with the responses for example. Then you could read that out with Selenium.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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answered Mar 17 '17 at 13:50

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Has anyone tried this with selenium and verify this worked? (asking because no upvotes) – Happy Bird Aug 19 '18 at 15:14
That's not really what is asked here. Anyone maybe have a solution with Python and Selenium? – Dimitri Jan 09 '19 at 18:29

Is it possible to capture XHR response data using WebDriver

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