playwright/docs/src/api/class-apirequest.md

class: APIRequest

• since: v1.16

Exposes API that can be used for the Web API testing. This class is used for creating [APIRequestContext] instance which in turn can be used for sending web requests. An instance of this class can be obtained via [property: Playwright.request]. For more information see [APIRequestContext].

async method: APIRequest.newContext

• since: v1.16

• returns: <[APIRequestContext]>

Creates new instances of [APIRequestContext].

option: APIRequest.newContext.useragent = %%-context-option-useragent-%%

• since: v1.16

option: APIRequest.newContext.extraHTTPHeaders = %%-context-option-extrahttpheaders-%%

• since: v1.16

option: APIRequest.newContext.httpCredentials = %%-context-option-httpcredentials-%%

• since: v1.16

option: APIRequest.newContext.proxy = %%-browser-option-proxy-%%

• since: v1.16

option: APIRequest.newContext.ignoreHTTPSErrors = %%-context-option-ignorehttpserrors-%%

• since: v1.16

option: APIRequest.newContext.timeout

• since: v1.16

• timeout <[float]>

Maximum time in milliseconds to wait for the response. Defaults to 30000 (30 seconds). Pass 0 to disable timeout.

option: APIRequest.newContext.baseURL

• since: v1.16

• baseURL <[string]>

Methods like [method: APIRequestContext.get] take the base URL into consideration by using the URL() constructor for building the corresponding URL. Examples:

• baseURL: http://localhost:3000 and sending request to /bar.html results in http://localhost:3000/bar.html
• baseURL: http://localhost:3000/foo/ and sending request to ./bar.html results in http://localhost:3000/foo/bar.html
• baseURL: http://localhost:3000/foo (without trailing slash) and navigating to ./bar.html results in http://localhost:3000/bar.html

option: APIRequest.newContext.storageState

• since: v1.16
• langs: js, python

• storageState <[path]|[Object]>
  • cookies <[Array]<[Object]>>
    • name <[string]>
    • value <[string]>
    • domain <[string]>
    • path <[string]>
    • expires <[float]> Unix time in seconds.
    • httpOnly <[boolean]>
    • secure <[boolean]>
    • sameSite <[SameSiteAttribute]<"Strict"|"Lax"|"None">>
  • origins <[Array]<[Object]>>
    • origin <[string]>
    • localStorage <[Array]<[Object]>>
      • name <[string]>
      • value <[string]>

Populates context with given storage state. This option can be used to initialize context with logged-in information obtained via [method: BrowserContext.storageState] or [method: APIRequestContext.storageState]. Either a path to the file with saved storage, or the value returned by one of [method: BrowserContext.storageState] or [method: APIRequestContext.storageState] methods.

option: APIRequest.newContext.storageState

• since: v1.16
• langs: java, csharp

• storageState <[string]>

Populates context with given storage state. This option can be used to initialize context with logged-in information obtained via [method: BrowserContext.storageState] or [method: APIRequestContext.storageState]. Either a path to the file with saved storage, or the value returned by one of [method: BrowserContext.storageState] or [method: APIRequestContext.storageState] methods.

option: APIRequest.newContext.storageStatePath = %%-csharp-java-context-option-storage-state-path-%%

• since: v1.18