Is it possible to force the webdriver page to reconnect until an available connection is made?

[GladistonXD]

I live in a city where there is a lot of power outage, it takes about 10 minutes to get the connection back and I get parked at the error "× Navigating to WA" I didn't find a way to try to reconnect automatically, in that case I would have to reconfigure the "puppeteer" to do a refresh loop?

[smashah]

@GladistonXD navigation timeout is set to 30seconds automatically. You just want the session to sit there and wait for a connection? There really isn't any concept of "retries" when a navigation fails. I suggest implementing some sort of network check before starting the session.

[GladistonXD]

Yes, I would like it to try to reconnect after a network failure until the internet comes back, I will try to create a network check before starting the library

[smashah]

@GladistonXD

I suggest trying this:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/ping

await the wa web url and then run the open-wa code once ping is successful.

Once you've figured out the right code, please share here.

Converting to discussion.

thanks

[GladistonXD]

I did it with 'dns.lookup' but I believe it can be improved, but it's functional

const dns = require('dns');

function sleep(timeMs) {
  return new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, timeMs));
}

function isOffline() {
  return new Promise((resolve) => {
    dns.lookup('www.google.com', async (error) => (
      error ? resolve(true) : resolve(false)
    ));
  });
}

async function waitForOnlineStatus() {
  while (await isOffline()) {
    console.log('Offline');
    await sleep(2000);
  }
    console.log('Online')
    create({
        sessionId: 'Client',
        headless: true,
        multiDevice: true,
        qrTimeout: 0,
        authTimeout: 0,
        cacheEnabled: true,
        useChrome: true,
        killProcessOnBrowserClose: true,
        throwErrorOnTosBlock: false})
    .then((client) => start(client));
    .catch((err) => console.error(err));
}

waitForOnlineStatus();