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I have a Cypress test that I wrote, and to avoid writing a second test, I'd like to be able to take the resulting URL, and do two things with it:

1) I'd like to modify it to force it to another page

2) While doing #1, I'll also need to extract a dynamic value from the URL to be used in the modified URL.

I have cy.url() but I don't know how to capture the value I need and set it as a variable. Does anyone know of a way to do this? I'm a new coder and still learning javascript so this might be easy and I just don't know how to go about it. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

chrismjx
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To extract values from cy elements, you must use promises (then syntax). Working with JS asynchronicity is a bit daunting at first, but do not panic! Study this core concept and you will quickly learn how Cypress works!

To answer question #1, you could do:

cy.url().then(urlValue => cy.visit(urlValue + '/about'));

The example above will extract the current url and you can use it in the next action. (url is exposed as an arrow function argument, here called urlValue).

Getulio Gasparotto Dadald
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