Replit "Live App URL" trick for the Back End cert

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For anyone else who may have trouble with this…

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:

  1. I opened the Devtools of Replit’s webview
  2. I switched to the Console
  3. I ran the command console.log(window.location.href);
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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.

Hope that helps someone else. :slight_smile:

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do you see the New tab button in the left corner,if you press the button it will open the new window ,thet is your live url…

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That also works, and it’s way simpler. Thanks lol. :upside_down_face:

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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.

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@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.

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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.

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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:

  1. Open your project in Replit.
  2. Access the Developer Tools of Replit’s web view (usually done by right-clicking anywhere on the page and selecting “Inspect” or “Inspect Element”).
  3. Navigate to the Console tab within the Developer Tools.
  4. Type or paste the command console.log(window.location.href); into the console and hit Enter.
  5. Copy the URL that’s printed out in the console.
  6. Paste this URL into the submission field on fCC.
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