Request: bodyUsed property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨March 2017⁩.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The bodyUsed read-only property of the Request interface is a boolean value that indicates whether the request body has been read yet.

Value

A boolean value.

Examples

js
const request = new Request("/myEndpoint", { method: "POST", body: "Hello world", }); request.bodyUsed; // false request.text().then((bodyAsText) => { console.log(request.bodyUsed); // true }); 

Specifications

Specification
Fetch
# ref-for-dom-body-bodyused①

Browser compatibility

See also