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BackgroundFetchRecord: request property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The request read-only property of the BackgroundFetchRecord interface returns the details of the resource to be fetched.

Value

A Request.

Examples

In this example an individual BackgroundFetchRecord is returned using BackgroundFetchManager.fetch(). The request is returned and logged to the console.

bgFetch.match("/ep-5.mp3").then(async (record) => {
  if (!record) {
    console.log("No record found");
    return;
  }

  console.log(`Here's the request`, record.request);
});

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
request 74 79 No 62 No 74 No 53 No 11.0 No No

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