Intercepting Request

Events

Event resource requested

The ‘resource.requested’ event is emitted when a request is started.

Name Spec Data Types Description
request Request Reference to the request object 
const request = require('request').create();

request.on('resource.requested', (request) => {
  console.info("Sending request");
});

request.start('http://www.google.com').then(() => {
    console.info("Page load complete **");
});

request.run();

Event resource received

The ‘resource.received’ event is emitted when a request is received from the source.

Name Spec Data Types Description
request Request Reference to the request object
response Response Reference to the response object 
const request = require('request').create();

request.on('resource.received', (request, response) => {
   console.info("Receiving request");
});

request.start('http://www.google.com').then(() => {
    console.info("Page load complete **");
});

request.run();

Sample request interceptor

const request = require('request').create();

const onRequestSent = function(request)
{
    console.info("Sending request");
}

const onRequestReceived = function (request, response) {
    console.info("Receiving request");
}

request.on('resource.requested', onRequestSent);
request.on('resource.received',  onRequestReceived);


request.start('http://www.google.com').then(() => {
    console.info("Page load complete **");
});

// Start processing
request.run();