Store console logging in Chrome in a persistent way

Erik Wendel picture Erik Wendel · Apr 18, 2012 · Viewed 8.8k times · Source

In a school project I am running some javascript that are inputted through the console window and run from there. This script manipulates the web page and outputs the results to the console.

PROBLEM: Keep / save these results in a persistant manner that does not go away on browser close, script malfunctioning / page reload, or if possible, pc crash.

I thought of using frameworks such as Log4js or jStorage (jQuery Storage), but as this is not my website I'm manipulating, I can't add code or markup to the page.

Is there any way to do this?

NOTE: It is not critical that I log the results to console, I could send them off somewhere or do something else with them if that makes it more easy to log.

Thanks.

Answer

Adriano Repetti picture Adriano Repetti · Apr 18, 2012

If you want to automatically save everything in Chrome Console you have to run Chrome with these options:

--enable-logging --v=1

It'll save the full log of chrome inside its data directory (note that the file will be overwritten on each run). More details here.

Alternative way: install the Sawbuck utility to manage Chrome logs.