Save the console.log in Chrome to a file

Question

Does anyone know of a way to save the console.log output in Chrome to a file? Or how to copy the text out of the console?

Say you are running a few hours of functional tests and you've got thousands of lines of console.log output in Chrome. How do you save it or export it?

Answer 1

This may or may not be helpful but on Windows you can read the console log using Event Tracing for Windows

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751538.aspx

Our integration tests are run in .NET so I use this method to add the console log to our test output. I've made a sample console project to demonstrate here: https://github.com/jkells/chrome-trace

--enable-logging --v=1 doesn't seem to work on the latest version of Chrome.

Answer 2

If you're running an Apache server on your localhost (don't do this on a production server), you can also post the results to a script instead of writing it to console.

So instead of console.log, you can write:

JSONP('http://localhost/save.php', {fn: 'filename.txt', data: json});

Then save.php can do this

<?php

 $fn = $_REQUEST['fn'];
 $data = $_REQUEST['data'];

 file_put_contents("path/$fn", $data);

Answer 3

For better log file (without the Chrome-debug nonsense) use:

--enable-logging --log-level=0

instead of --v=1 which is just too much info.

It will still provide the errors and warnings like you would typically see in the Chrome console.