How to read from Chrome's console in JavaScript

Question

I would like to put a button in my app, if you press it it will get the contents of everything that was written to the console and email it to me (for reporting bugs). I know I can keep a variable around and every time I do a console.log also append the message to that variable but I am trying to keep the memory consumption of the app low so it would be much more efficient just to grab it from the console.

Is there a way to retrieve the console messages from javascript?

Answer 1

You can't. What's in the console can't be read from JavaScript.

What you can do is hook the console.log function so that you store when it logs :

console.stdlog = console.log.bind(console);
console.logs = [];
console.log = function(){
    console.logs.push(Array.from(arguments));
    console.stdlog.apply(console, arguments);
}

console.logs contains all what was logged. You can clean it at any time by doing console.logs.length = 0;.

You can still do a standard, non storing, log by calling console.stdlog.