I’m starting the Back End cert, and I’m using Replit. I had trouble submitting the right URL to fCC. If I just copied and pasted the Replit URL from my browser into fCC, it said that I needed to use a “Live App URL” instead. The phrase occurs nowhere in Replit’s docs. There’s a post in Replit’s forum from a year ago discussing this issue, but their fix doesn’t work anymore.
In order to get that “Live App URL,” here’s what I did:
I opened the Devtools of Replit’s webview
I switched to the Console
I ran the command console.log(window.location.href);
See picture:
Don’t mind the console.log("hello");, that was me fooling around lol. The important bit is the https://boilerplate-npm--shyaway.repl.co/ part. That’s the “Live App URL,” and fCC did accept that link.
Hi zaklina,
Apologies, but I’m having a similar problem in submitting the live url for the Scientific Computing with Python projects. When I click on New Tab, I just can’t see any links. Where am I supposed to look? Running the project doesn’t generate any WebView.
@AntonioRiccelli I haven’t done that cert, but it looks like you only need to submit the URL of the project, not the Live URL (because it doesn’t look like you’re making a Python server or anything). So it’d be like https://replit.com/@YOURNAME/boilerplate-arithmetic-formatter I think.
Thank you, you are right. I found some GitHub issues where this was explained. I found it strange as, technically, you could just submit any valid HTTPS link and it will be accepted, which could lead to cheating, but I understand there was no other way.
It sounds like you’ve encountered a common hiccup when trying to submit your project URL to fCC. Thanks for sharing your workaround! If you’re using Replit for your Back End certification and need to provide a “Live App URL” to fCC, here’s a step-by-step guide to get it:
Open your project in Replit.
Access the Developer Tools of Replit’s web view (usually done by right-clicking anywhere on the page and selecting “Inspect” or “Inspect Element”).
Navigate to the Console tab within the Developer Tools.
Type or paste the command console.log(window.location.href); into the console and hit Enter.