Get one cat
GET https://http.cat{{statusCode}}
- We see
{{statusCode}}
at the end of the URL. The curly braces syntax allows you to use defined variables in the text fields. But wait, we haven’t defined a variable calledstatusCode
yet. - Look under the Pre-request Script tab in Qodex. People use pre-request scripts for setting up their main request, for example calculating or retrieving a variable. Let’s do that now. Under the Pre-request Script tab, we see code to retrieve all of our scraped hyperlinks and remove one to be used in this request. We also save this data as a variable so that it can be accessed in the main request.
- We can continue cycling through all the status codes remaining in
allCodes
by continuing to hit Send. - It can be tricky to see exactly what Qodex is sending to the server since
{{statusCode}}
isn't defined until the pre-request script runs when the request is sent. Open the [Qodex console] for more visibility into the network calls and log statements.