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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Oct 28, 2022 1 min read [\#headless-browser](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/headless-browser) [\#puppeteer](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/puppeteer) 

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When scraping dynamic web pages with Puppeteer and NodeJS we need to wait for the page to fully load before we retrieve the page source. Using Puppeteer's `waitForSelector` method we can wait for a specific element to appear on the page which indicates that the web page has fully loaded and then we can grab the page source:

javascript```javascript
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

async function run() {
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    await page.goto("https://httpbin.dev/");
    // wait for the selector appear on the page in this case we wait for "Auth" drop down to appear:
    await page.waitForSelector('#operations-tag-Auth', {timeout: 5_000});
    console.log(await page.content());
    browser.close();
}

run();
```





 

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