Window: fetch() method

{{APIRef("Fetch API")}} 

The fetch() method of the {{domxref("Window")}}  interface starts the process of fetching a resource from the network, returning a promise that is fulfilled once the response is available.

The promise resolves to the {{domxref("Response")}}  object representing the response to your request.

A fetch() promise only rejects when the request fails, for example, because of a badly-formed request URL or a network error. A fetch() promise does not reject if the server responds with HTTP status codes that indicate errors (404, 504, etc.). Instead, a then() handler must check the {{domxref("Response.ok")}}  and/or {{domxref("Response.status")}}  properties.

The fetch() method is controlled by the connect-src directive of Content Security Policy rather than the directive of the resources it’s retrieving.

[!NOTE] The fetch() method’s parameters are identical to those of the {{domxref("Request.Request","Request()")}}  constructor.

Syntax

fetch(resource)
fetch(resource, options)

Parameters

• resource

  • : This defines the resource that you wish to fetch. This can either be:
    • A string or any other object with a {{Glossary("stringifier")}}  — including a {{domxref("URL")}}  object — that provides the URL of the resource you want to fetch. The URL may be relative to the base URL, which is the document’s {{domxref("Node.baseURI", "baseURI")}}  in a window context, or {{domxref("WorkerGlobalScope.location")}}  in a worker context.
    • A {{domxref("Request")}}  object.

• options {{optional_inline}} 

  • : A {{domxref("RequestInit")}}  object containing any custom settings that you want to apply to the request.

Return value

A {{jsxref("Promise")}}  that resolves to a {{domxref("Response")}}  object.

Exceptions

• AbortError {{domxref("DOMException")}} 
  • : The request was aborted due to a call to the {{domxref("AbortController")}}  {{domxref("AbortController.abort", "abort()")}}  method.
• NotAllowedError {{domxref("DOMException")}} 
  • : Thrown if use of the Topics API is specifically disallowed by a {{httpheader('Permissions-Policy/browsing-topics','browsing-topics')}}  Permissions Policy, and a fetch() request was made with browsingTopics: true.
• {{jsxref("TypeError")}} 
  • : Can occur for the following reasons:
    • The requested URL is invalid.
    • The requested URL includes credentials (username and password).
    • The {{domxref("RequestInit")}}  object passed as the value of options included properties with invalid values.
    • The request is blocked by a permissions policy.
    • There is a network error (for example, because the device does not have connectivity).

Examples

In our Fetch Request example (see Fetch Request live) we create a new {{domxref("Request")}}  object using the relevant constructor, then fetch it using a fetch() call. Since we are fetching an image, we run {{domxref("Response.blob()")}}  on the response to give it the proper MIME type so it will be handled properly, then create an Object URL of it and display it in an {{htmlelement("img")}}  element.

const myImage = document.querySelector("img");

const myRequest = new Request("flowers.jpg");

window
  .fetch(myRequest)
  .then((response) => {
    if (!response.ok) {
      throw new Error(`HTTP error! Status: ${response.status}`);
    }

    return response.blob();
  })
  .then((response) => {
    myImage.src = URL.createObjectURL(response);
  });

In our Fetch Request with init example (see Fetch Request init live) we do the same thing except that we pass in an options object when we invoke fetch(). In this case, we can set a {{HTTPHeader("Cache-Control")}}  value to indicate what kind of cached responses we’re okay with:

const myImage = document.querySelector("img");
const reqHeaders = new Headers();

// A cached response is okay unless it's more than a week old
reqHeaders.set("Cache-Control", "max-age=604800");

const options = {
  headers: reqHeaders,
};

// Pass init as an "options" object with our headers.
const req = new Request("flowers.jpg", options);

fetch(req).then((response) => {
  // …
});

You could also pass the init object in with the Request constructor to get the same effect:

const req = new Request("flowers.jpg", options);

You can also use an object literal as headers in init:

const options = {
  headers: {
    "Cache-Control": "max-age=60480",
  },
};

const req = new Request("flowers.jpg", options);

The Using fetch article provides more examples of using fetch().

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• {{domxref("WorkerGlobalScope.fetch()")}} 
• Fetch API
• ServiceWorker API
• HTTP access control (CORS)
• HTTP