Google Chrome Extension : Is It Possible To Get Console Output (js Errors, Console.log Or Etc)

I am developing chrome extension, and the thing that i really need is to get console output as object. Is it possible to get any of that in chrome extension popup.html/popup.js or

Solution 1:

Google Chrome Console has no possibility (upon now) to get the Output/Contents of the Console.

Solution 2:

In your popup.js file you can just use console.log("stuff") then right click on your extension and go to the debugger or inspect_element -> console, to see the output.

From your background file you will need to do:

popup = chrome.extension.getViews('popup'); // this returns an array

popup[0].console.log("stuff");

Then simply do the same steps as above.

See: api get views for more on interaction between views and here for: another way to interact between pages.

Solution 3:

There appears to be a way to get console output in an extension, though it requires launching Chrome with a special flag and giving the extension extra file reading permissions.

1. This SO Answer shows how you can have all of Chrome's actions, including console.log() strings, saved in a local file, by launching Chrome with --enable-logging --v=1
2. Then this SO Answer shows how an extension can read that local file.

Solution 4:

There are three JavaScript context in Chrome Extemsion : Content Script, Backgrond Script and Popup. In each context of code you can use console.log(). i.e console.log("I am here");

var tempObject = {'one': 'v_one', 'two', 'v_two'};

console.log(tempObject);

Note: Output will be available only in which context of code you mentioned console.log('Hello');