Use nightwatchjs to get some content from a webpage and store it in a cookie

gistfile1.txt

var urlTest = 'https://example.com/';

var resultsCountCookieName = 'myCookie';

module.exports = {
  '@tags': ['exampletagname'],

  'Get Value from webpage into cookie' : function (client) {

    // a week seems a suitable length of time to have the cookie last...
    var maxAgeSeconds = 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
    var todaysDate = new Date();
    var expiryDate = new Date(todaysDate.getTime() + maxAgeSeconds);

    // common uql checks
    client
      .url(urlTest)

      // did we get a page? (basic sanity tests)
      .assert.elementPresent('html', 'a base html element is present')
      .assert.elementPresent('body', 'a body element is present')

      // sleep to let the actual content load!
      .pause(5000)

      // delete any pre-existing cookie
      .deleteCookie(resultsCountCookieName)

      // get the contents of the element (my original was getting a numeric result from a page, which had commas in it and then had some words after that needed to be removed)
      .assert.elementPresent('.results-count')
      .getText('.results-count', function(result) {
        resultCount = 0;
        var spaceLocation = result.value.indexOf(" ");
        if (spaceLocation !== -1) {
          resultCount = result.value
            .substr(0, spaceLocation) // the chars before the first space is the numeric record count
            .trim()
            .replace(/,/g, ""); // remove commas so we have an integer
        }
      })

       .perform(function () {
         client.setCookie({
           name  : resultsCountCookieName,
           value : resultCount,
           expires: expiryDate.toUTCString(),
           max_age: maxAgeSeconds,
           domain: "example.com",
           secure: true,
           httpOnly: false
         })

       })

       // confirm we created a cookie
       .getCookie(resultsCountCookieName, function callback(result) {
         client.assert.equal(result.name, resultsCountCookieName);
         client.assert.equal(result.value, resultCount);
       })

      .end();
  }
};