How to to get elements value from html response at <script> </script>

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,
#1

So I get a response something like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
--------------------
</head>
<body>
    <script>
        function onClickButton(word) {
        if (word == 'yes'){
          var authorizationCode = '360ad5ce-ecfe-4ad4-83d1-9254e89a3ccc';
          var state = 'c8271b81-4229-6a1f-bf9c-758f11c1f5b1';
        } else {
          alert(word);
        }
      }
    </script>
    <div class="shb-psua-sign-app-sandbox-container">
    --------------------
    </div>
</body>
</html>

How do I get var authorizationCode value? and save it as a variable in postman.
My code for now looks like this:

const $ = cheerio.load(pm.response.text())
var script = $("script").text();

pm.collectionVariables.set("access_token", script);

Now I get the whole script but how do I just get the value of the authorizationCode or even just using the gotten variable to get the value out of it?
I have also looked about different solutions for example:

const script = $('script').find("authorizationCode");  //but this doesn't work
#2

Hi @akfas

Not the cleanest way but you could try this;

const response = pm.response.text();
//find a match with a regex
let authCode = response.match(/authorizationCode = '(.*?)';/g);
//remove first and last characters as needed with slice;
console.log(authCode[0].slice(21, -2));
#3

yeah, it works but I don’t know if the code is always that length

#4

The length of code shouldn’t matter as the bits i’m removing are the start and end of the string…

So the slice 21 removes this;

authorizationCode = '

and the slice -2 removes this;

';

The bit you are left with is the code in between.

Like this;
image

#5

So if I mock up the example with extra stuff in the code it looks like this;

image
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Hope this helps…

#6

yeah, sorry about that. I wasn’t fully concentrating when responding.

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#7

no worries, glad it’s helped. :+1: