Cypress - How to verify data from a PDF file using cypress command

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Below is my code in cypress. How to print 'pdf' content and verify content using cypress .contains or .eq? when I run the code it prints object{6} but I want to print my pdf file content. I would really appreciate the help.

**Plugins/index.js:**

const fs = require('fs')
const pdf = require('pdf-parse')
const path = require('path')

const repoRoot = path.join("C:/Users/XXXXX/Downloads/loginCy-excel")

const parsePdf = async (pdfName) => {
  const pdfPathname = path.join(repoRoot, pdfName)
  let dataBuffer = fs.readFileSync(pdfPathname);
  return await pdf(dataBuffer)
}

module.exports = (on, config) => {
on('task', {
        getPdfContent (pdfName) {
          return parsePdf(pdfName)
        },
      })

}



**cypress spec file has these code:**

it('tests a pdf', () => {
    cy.task('getPdfContent', 'sample.pdf').then(content => {
        cy.log(content)
})
  })
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2 Answers

pdf method will return an object, so I guess cy.log() can't print it like that. If you want to see what the function gathered in your pdf file, you can stringify the result:

cy
  .log(JSON.stringify(content));

If you want to get only text from your pdf, you need to work with text property:

cy
  .log(content.text);
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Anyone struggling with testing PDF files with cypress can refer to these two very good blog posts precisely on this topic:

  1. https://filiphric.com/testing-pdf-file-with-cypress
  2. https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/cypress-pdf/

It wasn't asked in this question, but here is a little addition from me on how to download files (was tested on PDFs) from a URL:

cy.request({
        url: '<file url>',
        gzip: false,
        encoding: 'base64',
    }).then((response) => {
        cy.writeFile(
            Cypress.config('downloadsFolder') + '/<name of the file>.pdf',
            response.body,
            { encoding: 'base64' }
        );
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