How to paste from clipboard in cypress

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I am using cypress to test the flow of my application. At this point it just opens an account and follows the flow as a user would.At a point I copy a link and would like to follow that link. The issue I have is that the link changes with every test that I run and I dont know what the link is until its been copied. When the test finishes, I would like to paste that link in the browser and make sure that the page does exist.

I cant seem to find a way to paste from my clipboard. Is there a way to do this ? My next test basically needs to start with

`cy.visit('paste');`

Ive tried doing

`cy.visit('{Ctrlv}');

But that does not seem to work. Any advice ? Thanks in advance !

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1 Answers

I think what you want to do is use cy.request() to test the link exist.

cy.visit(pasted-link-here) might be tricky if the link you need to test is outside the original domain, but cy.request() can give you a status code.

cy.window().then(win => {
  win.navigator.clipboard.readText().then(urlFromClipboard => {
    cy.request(urlFromClipboard)
      .then(response => expect(response.status).to.eq(200))
  })
})

Actually, see here

cy.request() requires that the response status code be 2xx or 3xx

so you could just use this

cy.window().then(win => {
  win.navigator.clipboard.readText().then(urlFromClipboard => {
    cy.request(urlFromClipboard)
  })
})

and the test will fail if status code is a failure code.

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