Fetching JSON With Playwright
I wrote my first project using Playwright, an interesting headless browser API similar to Puppeteer but for all major browsers (Chromium, Firefox and Webkit). My first hurdle was reading a simple JSON response as opposed to a normal HTML page. The docs suggest attaching a listener to all requests and filtering what you want there, but I found the following to be easiest way:
page
.goto(url)
.then(async (response) => {
const body = await response.body()
content = await JSON.parse(body.toString())
})
This breaks the async/await convention, but it works.