playwright/docs/src/events.md

---
id: events
title: "Events"
---

Playwright allows listening to various types of events happening in the web page, such
as network requests, creation of child pages, dedicated workers etc. There are several
ways to subscribe to such events:

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## Waiting for event

Most of the time, scripts will need to wait for a particular event to happen. Below are some of the typical event
awaiting patterns.

Wait for a request with the specified url:

```js
const [request] = await Promise.all([
  page.waitForRequest('**/*logo*.png'),
  page.goto('https://wikipedia.org')
]);
console.log(request.url());
```

```java
// The callback lambda defines scope of the code that is expected to
// trigger request.
Request request = page.waitForRequest("**/*logo*.png", () -> {
  page.navigate("https://wikipedia.org");
});
System.out.println(request.url());
```

```python async
async with page.expect_request("**/*logo*.png") as first:
  await page.goto("https://wikipedia.org")
first_request = await first.value
print(first_request.url)
```

```python sync
with page.expect_request("**/*logo*.png") as first:
  page.goto("https://wikipedia.org")
print(first.value.url)
```

Wait for popup window:

```js
const [popup] = await Promise.all([
  page.waitForEvent('popup'),
  page.evaluate('window.open()')
]);
await popup.goto('https://wikipedia.org');
```

```java
// The callback lambda defines scope of the code that is expected to
// create popup window.
Page popup = page.waitForPopup(() -> {
  page.evaluate("window.open()");
});
popup.navigate("https://wikipedia.org");
```

```python async
async with page.expect_popup() as popup:
  await page.evaluate("window.open()")
child_page = await popup.value
await child_page.goto("https://wikipedia.org")
```

```python sync
with page.expect_popup() as popup:
  page.evaluate("window.open()")
popup.value.goto("https://wikipedia.org")
```

## Adding/removing event listener

Sometimes, events happen in random time and instead of waiting for them, they need to be handled.
Playwright supports traditional language mechanisms for subscribing and unsubscribing from the events:

```js
page.on('request', request => console.log(`Request sent: ${request.url()}`));
const listener = request => console.log(`Request finished: ${request.url()}`);
page.on('requestfinished', listener);
await page.goto('https://wikipedia.org');

page.off('requestfinished', listener);
await page.goto('https://www.openstreetmap.org/');
```

```java
page.onRequest(request -> System.out.println("Request sent: " + request.url()));
Consumer<Request> listener = request -> System.out.println("Request finished: " + request.url());
page.onRequestFinished(listener);
page.navigate("https://wikipedia.org");

// Remove previously added listener, each on* method has corresponding off*
page.offRequestFinished(listener);
page.navigate("https://www.openstreetmap.org/");
```

```python async
def print_request_sent(request):
  print("Request sent: " + request.url)

def print_request_finished(request):
  print("Request finished: " + request.url)

page.on("request", print_request_sent)
page.on("requestfinished", print_request_finished)
await page.goto("https://wikipedia.org")

page.remove_listener("requestfinished", print_request_finished)
await page.goto("https://www.openstreetmap.org/")
```

```python sync
def print_request_sent(request):
  print("Request sent: " + request.url)

def print_request_finished(request):
  print("Request finished: " + request.url)

page.on("request", print_request_sent)
page.on("requestfinished", print_request_finished)
page.goto("https://wikipedia.org")

page.remove_listener("requestfinished", print_request_finished)
page.goto("https://www.openstreetmap.org/")
```

## Adding one-off listeners

If certain event needs to be handled once, there is a convenience API for that:

```js
page.once('dialog', dialog => dialog.accept("2021"));
await page.evaluate("prompt('Enter a number:')");
```

```java
page.onceDialog(dialog -> dialog.accept("2021"));
page.evaluate("prompt('Enter a number:')");
```

```python async
page.once("dialog", lambda dialog: dialog.accept("2021"))
await page.evaluate("prompt('Enter a number:')")
```

```python sync
page.once("dialog", lambda dialog: dialog.accept("2021"))
page.evaluate("prompt('Enter a number:')")
```

### API reference

- [Browser]
- [BrowserContext]
- [Page]
- [Worker]