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The goal is to have a simple html with a text input and when the user gives Submit the input with the instagram username, the Puppeteer receive the url ('https://instagram.com/${username}')
but I’m days trying to pass this ${username} from frontend to backend and I can’t.
HTML
<form name="" action="">
<input type="text" name="username" id="username">
<input type="submit" value="submit" onclick="submitName()">
</form>
<script src="./scripts/index.js"></script>
index js.
const ig = require('./instagram');
async function submitName(){
const inputUsername = document.querySelector('#username');
const username = await inputUsername.value
await ig.inicialize(`https://instagram.com/${username}`)
console.log(`https://instagram.com/${username}`);
};
instagram js.
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
const instagram = {
browser: null,
page: null,
inicialize: async (url) => {
instagram.browser = await puppeteer.launch({headless: false});
instagram.page = await instagram.browser.newPage();
await instagram.page.goto(url)
}
}
module.exports = instagram;
Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong? I know I have to run Node instagram.js, but there’s no way to run it without having the url, I’m already lost...
Look, as far as I know, to run Puppeteer you have to use Node. That way Voce who made the form I believe will not run your instagram robot. My suggestion: create a server with express and a simple route, and pass by post or get the url typed by the user. Then just pass the url to the function that runs the robot and you’re done.
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