<titledata-rh="true">WebWorker class | Puppeteer</title><metadata-rh="true"name="viewport"content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"><metadata-rh="true"name="twitter:card"content="summary_large_image"><metadata-rh="true"property="og:url"content="https://pptr.dev/next/api/puppeteer.webworker"><metadata-rh="true"property="og:locale"content="en"><metadata-rh="true"name="docsearch:language"content="en"><metadata-rh="true"name="docsearch:counter"content="3"><metadata-rh="true"property="og:title"content="WebWorker class | Puppeteer"><metadata-rh="true"name="description"content="This class represents a WebWorker."><metadata-rh="true"property="og:description"content="This class represents a WebWorker."><linkdata-rh="true"rel="icon"href="/img/favicon.ico"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="canonical"href="https://pptr.dev/next/api/puppeteer.webworker"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="alternate"href="https://pptr.dev/next/api/puppeteer.webworker"hreflang="en"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="alternate"href="https://pptr.dev/next/api/puppeteer.webworker"hreflang="x-default"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="preconnect"href="https://DVKY664LG7-dsn.algolia.net"crossorigin="anonymous"><linkrel="search"type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"title="Puppeteer"href="/opensearch.xml">
<p>This class represents a <ahref="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">WebWorker</a>.</p>
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<p>The events <code>workercreated</code> and <code>workerdestroyed</code> are emitted on the page object to signal the worker lifecycle.</p>
<p>The constructor for this class is marked as internal. Third-party code should not call the constructor directly or create subclasses that extend the <code>WebWorker</code> class.</p>
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<table><thead><tr><th><p>Method</p></th><th><p>Modifiers</p></th><th><p>Description</p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><spanid="close"><ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker.close">close()</a></span></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><spanid="evaluate"><ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker.evaluate">evaluate(func, args)</a></span></td><td></td><td><p>Evaluates a given function in the <ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker">worker</a>.</p><p><strong>Remarks:</strong></p><p>If the given function returns a promise, <ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker.evaluate">evaluate</a> will wait for the promise to resolve.</p><p>As a rule of thumb, if the return value of the given function is more complicated than a JSON object (e.g. most classes), then <ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker.evaluate">evaluate</a> will _likely_ return some truncated value (or <code>{}</code>). This is because we are not returning the actual return value, but a deserialized version as a result of transferring the return value through a protocol to Puppeteer.</p><p>In general, you should use <ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker.evaluatehandle">evaluateHandle</a> if <ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker.evaluate">evaluate</a> cannot serialize the return value properly or you need a mutable <ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.jshandle">handle</a> to the return object.</p></td></tr><tr><td><spanid="evaluatehandle"><ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker.evaluatehandle">evaluateHandle(func, args)</a></span></td><td></td><td><p>Evaluates a given function in the <ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker">worker</a>.</p><p><strong>Remarks:</strong></p><p>If the given function returns a promise, <ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker.evaluate">evaluate</a> will wait for the promise to resolve.</p><p>In general, you should use <ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker.evaluatehandle">evaluateHandle</a> if <ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker.evaluate">evaluate</a> cannot serialize the return value properly or you need a mutable <ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.jshandle">handle</a> to the return object.</p></td></tr><tr><td><spanid="url"><ahref="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker.url">url()</a></span></td><td></td><td><p>The URL of this web worker.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></article><navclass="pagination-nav docusaurus-mt-lg"aria-label="Docs pages"><aclass="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--prev"href="/next/api/puppeteer.page.workers"><divclass="pagination-nav__sublabel">Previous</div><divclass="pagination-nav__label">Page.workers</div></a><aclass="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--next"href="/next/api/puppeteer.webworker.close"><divclass="pagination-nav__sublabel">Next</div><divclass="pagination-nav__label">WebWorker.close</div></a></nav></div></div><divclass="col col--3"><divclass="tableOfContents_IS5x thin-scrollbar theme-doc-toc-desktop"><ulclass="table-of-contents table-of-contents__left-border"><li><ahref="#remarks"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Remarks</a></li><li><ahref="#example"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Example</a></li><li><ahref="#properties"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Properties</a></li><li><ahref="#methods"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Methods</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div></main></div></div></div><footerclass="footer footer--dark"><divclass="container container-fluid"><divclass="row footer__links"><divclass="col footer__col"><divclass="footer__title">Community</div><ulclass="footer__items clean-list"><liclass="footer__item"><ahref="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/puppeteer"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer"class="footer__link-item">Stack Overflow<svgwidth="13.5"height="13.5"aria-hidden="true"viewBox="0 0 24 24"class="iconExternalLink_T11m"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M21 13v10h-21v-19h12v2h-10v15h17v-8h2zm3-12h-10.988l4.035 4-6.977 7.07 2.828 2.828 6.977-7.07 4.125 4.172v-11z"></path></svg></a></li><liclass="footer__item"><ahref="https://twitter.com/chromedevtools"target="_blank"rel="noopenernore
