Puppeteer

This example shows you how to intercept and print the content of a JSON response requested via any AJAX request on a web page by using Pyppeteer:

import asyncio
import json
from pyppeteer import launch

async def intercept_network_response(response):
    # In this example, we care only about responses returning JSONs
    if "application/json" in response.headers.get("content-type", ""):
        # Print some info about the responses
        print("URL:", response.url)
        print("Method:", response.request.method)
        print("Response headers:", response.headers)
        print("Request Headers:", response.request.headers)
        print("Response status:", response.status)
        # Print the content of the response
        try:
            # await response.json() returns the response as Python object
            print("Content: ", await response.json())
        except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
            # NOTE: Use await response.text() if you want to get raw response text
            print("Failed to decode JSON from", await response.text())

async def main():
    browser = await launch()
    page = await browser.newPage()
    
    page.on('response', intercept_network_response)
            
    await page.goto('https://instagram.com')
    await browser.close()

asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(main())

Using Javascript (puppeteer)? Check out Minimal puppeteer response interception example

This example shows you how to intercept network responses in pyppeteer.

Note: This intercepts the response, not the request! This means you can abort the request before it is actually sent to the server, but you can’t read the content of the response! See Pyppetteer minimal network request interception example for an example on how to intercept requests.

import asyncio
from pyppeteer import launch

async def intercept_network_response(response):
    # In this example, we only care about HTML responses!
    if "text/html" in response.headers.get("content-type", ""):
        # Print some info about the responses
        print("URL:", response.url)
        print("Method:", response.request.method)
        print("Response headers:", response.headers)
        print("Request Headers:", response.request.headers)
        print("Response status:", response.status)
        # Print the content of the response
        print("Content: ", await response.text())
        # NOTE: Use await response.json() if you want to get the JSON directly

async def main():
    browser = await launch()
    page = await browser.newPage()
    
    page.on('response', intercept_network_response)
            
    await page.goto('https://techoverflow.net')
    await browser.close()

asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(main())

Using Javascript (puppeteer)? Check out Minimal puppeteer request interception example

This example shows you how to intercept network requests in pyppeteer:

Note: This intercepts the request, not the response! This means you can abort the request made, but you can’t read the content of the response! See Pyppetteer minimal network response interception example for an example on how to intercept responses.

import asyncio
from pyppeteer import launch

async def intercept_network_request(request):
    # Print some info about the request
    print("URL:", request.url)
    print("Method:", request.method)
    print("Headers:", request.headers)
    # NOTE: You can also await request.abort() to abort the requst1
    await request.continue_()

async def main():
    browser = await launch()
    page = await browser.newPage()
    await page.setRequestInterception(True)
    
    page.on('request', intercept_network_request)
            
    await page.goto('https://techoverflow.net')
    await browser.close()

asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(main())

Note: Also see Pyppetteer minimal network request interception example

Problem:

You are trying to intercept a request in Pyppeteer using

page.on('request', my_intercept_request)

but you’re getting an error message like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/events.py", line 145, in _run
    self._callback(*self._args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pyee/_compat.py", line 62, in _callback
    self.emit('error', exc)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pyee/_base.py", line 106, in emit
    self._emit_handle_potential_error(event, args[0] if args else None)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pyee/_base.py", line 83, in _emit_handle_potential_error
    raise error
  File "run.py", line 6, in intercept
    await request.continue_()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pyppeteer/network_manager.py", line 481, in continue_
    raise NetworkError('Request interception is not enabled.')
pyppeteer.errors.NetworkError: Request interception is not enabled.

Solution:

Add

await page.setRequestInterception(True)

directly after your call to

page = await browser.newPage()

This will enable request interception and your code will run just fine.