how to end nightmare

[neutron92]

Please how to end nightmare by separeted button i want to do a start and stop button
PS:

Nightmare({
        show: false,
        openDevTools: false
    });

[rosshinkley]

I'm not entirely sure I understand the question. Nightmare can be ended with .end(), and in the future interrupted with .halt() (see #788).

The "button" part of your question confuses me: what are you trying to do?

[neutron92]

@rosshinkley i want to stop the nightmare by a button
i want to do a button that start my script contains nightmare then when i want to stop the nightmare with an other button because in the server i can't see the electron to stop it
did u undertand me now?

[rosshinkley]

Yes. I think in that case you'd want the .halt() API, which is as-yet not included.

[neutron92]

i got u ok thanks a lot for ur answer

[shtefcs]

@rosshinkley do you know maybe when .halt() API will be included ?

We need it for project of ours.

If that will not be soon, do you suggest any solutions ?

Peace!

[entrptaher]

I don't know about the halt() function but basically I did another workaround.

Creating a nightmare window without calling end()
Then add a button to call only the end()

Maybe you wanted a pause button too. But I suppose this one was the best thing I could come of with.
Here is something else to help you understand my perspective.

First I do this to run nightmare inside electron,
#856 (comment)

Then I use this index.html file.

<button id="start">Start</button>
<button id="stop">Stop</button>
<b id="status">idle</b>
<b id="results"></b>

<script>
// We allow nightmare to wander in the global scope by defining it here, 
// otherwise we would not be able to call it multiple times
var Nightmare = require('nightmare');
var nightmare;
var args = { show: true, alwaysOnTop: false };


document.getElementById("start").addEventListener("click", function(){
  document.getElementById("status").innerHTML = "Searching for the gem";

  // Here we start the Nightmare Instance
  nightmare = Nightmare(args);
  nightmare
    .goto('http://yahoo.com')
    .type('form[action*="/search"] [name=p]', 'github nightmare')
    .click('form[action*="/search"] [type=submit]')
    .wait('#main')
    .evaluate(function () {
      return document.querySelector('#main .searchCenterMiddle li a').href
    })
    .then(function (result) {
      document.getElementById("results").innerHTML = result;
    })
    .catch(function (error) {
      document.getElementById("results"). innerHtml = "Search failed: " + error;
    });

})
document.getElementById("stop").addEventListener("click", function(){
  nightmare
  .end()
  .then(function (result) {
      document.getElementById("status").innerHTML = "Leaving Nightmare Speechless";
    })
})
</script>

And the result is this,

It might look really stupid, but this works for me I guess.

[shtefcs]

@entrptaher Wow, tnx a lot for trying to help mate, really appreciate!

I will need to wait someone to do this for me, cause current guy who was doing this left the work.

@entrptaher how can I get in contact with you ? My email is stefan@vanila.io, so you can reach me there or join our internal chat on https://chat.vanila.io

[jelenajjo]

Thank you @entrptaher

[entrptaher]

Glad to be of help.

[Raidus]

Thanks @entrptaher for your example!

I've tried to rebuild your example, but nightmare isn't starting in my case.

Could have a look at https://github.com/Raidus/test-electron-nightmare?