How to stop puppeteer follow redirects

Question

Currently it seems the default behaviour of puppeteer is to follow redirects and return the DOM at the end of the chain.

How can I make the .goto() method to stop after the first redirect happened and simply return the html from that first 3xx page when i call page.content() method?

Answer 1

You can enable a request interception and abort additional requests if a chain of requests is identified:

await page.setRequestInterception(true);

page.on('request', request => {
  if (request.isNavigationRequest() && request.redirectChain().length !== 0) {
    request.abort();
  } else {
    request.continue();
  }
});

await page.goto('https://www.example.com/');

Answer 2

It seems that at the moment of writing, this is not possible (at least not in the high-level API that Puppeteer provides). Check out the docs for goto here.

Answer 3

I made a few modifications to the top answer and now we can track the specific status code number.

await page.setRequestInterception(true);

    page.on('request', request => {
        if (request.isNavigationRequest() && request.redirectChain().length >= 1) {
            const redirectResponse = request.redirectChain()[request.redirectChain().length - 1].response();
            request.respond({
                status: redirectResponse.status(),
                contentType: 'text/plain',
                body: 'Redirects!',
            });
        } else {
            request.continue();
        }
        // frivolous comment to comply with post edit minimum length
    });