[google-chrome] Save the console.log in Chrome to a file

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?

Good news

Chrome dev tools now allows you to save the console output to a file natively

1. Open the console
2. Right-click
3. Select "save as.."

Chrome Developer instructions here.

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.

I have found a great and easy way for this.

1. In the console - right click on the console logged object

2. Click on 'Store as global variable'

3. See the name of the new variable - e.g. it is variableName1

4. Type in the console: JSON.stringify(variableName1)

5. Copy the variable string content: e.g. {"a":1,"b":2,"c":3}

6. Go to some JSON online editor: e.g. https://jsoneditoronline.org/

On Linux (at least) you can set CHROME_LOG_FILE in the environment to have chrome write a log of the Console activity to the named file each time it runs. The log is overwritten every time chrome starts. This way, if you have an automated session that runs chrome, you don't have a to change the way chrome is started, and the log is there after the session ends.

export CHROME_LOG_FILE=chrome.log

For Google Chrome Version 84.0.4147.105 and higher,

just right click and click 'Save as' and 'Save'

then, txt file will be saved

There is an open-source javascript plugin that does just that, but for any browser - debugout.js

Debugout.js records and save console.logs so your application can access them. Full disclosure, I wrote it. It formats different types appropriately, can handle nested objects and arrays, and can optionally put a timestamp next to each log. You can also toggle live-logging in one place, and without having to remove all your logging statements.

A lot of good answers but why not just use JSON.stringify(your_variable) ? Then take the contents via copy and paste (remove outer quotes). I posted this same answer also at: How to save the output of a console.log(object) to a file?

There is another open-source tool which allows you to save all console.log output in a file on your server - JS LogFlush (plug!).

JS LogFlush is an integrated JavaScript logging solution which include:

• cross-browser UI-less replacement of console.log - on client side.
• log storage system - on server side.

Demo

These days it's very easy - right click any item displayed in the console log and select save as and save the whole log output to a file on your computer.

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);

the other solutions in this thread weren't working on my mac. Here's a logger that saves a string representation intermittently using ajax. use it with console.save instead of console.log

var logFileString="";
var maxLogLength=1024*128;

console.save=function(){
  var logArgs={};

  for(var i=0; i<arguments.length; i++) logArgs['arg'+i]=arguments[i];
  console.log(logArgs);

  // keep a string representation of every log
  logFileString+=JSON.stringify(logArgs,null,2)+'\n';

  // save the string representation when it gets big
  if(logFileString.length>maxLogLength){
    // send a copy in case race conditions change it mid-save
    saveLog(logFileString);
    logFileString="";
  }
};

depending on what you need, you can save that string or just console.log it and copy and paste. here's an ajax for you in case you want to save it:

function saveLog(data){
  // do some ajax stuff with data.
  var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();

  xhttp.onreadystatechange = function(){
    if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {}
  }

  xhttp.open("POST", 'saveLog.php', true);
  xhttp.send(data);
}

the saveLog.php should append the data to a log file somewhere. I didn't need that part so I'm not including it here. :)

https://www.google.com/search?q=php+append+to+log

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.

update May 18, 2020: Actually, I think this is no longer true. I couldn't find the console messages within whatever this logging level is.