Chrome Debugger

Ever wanted to capture stats (#requests, onload time, etc.) about the state of your frontend? Us too! Chrome Debugger uses the remote debugging protocol in Chrome to do just that!

Intended to be a used in a post-deploy or CI step.

Yay-hooray!

Installation

gem install chrome_debugger

Extra Requirements

Chrome 18 or higher must be installed and available on the path.

Usage

require 'chrome_debugger'

ChromeDebugger::Client.open do |chrome|
  document = chrome.load_url("https://theconversation.edu.au/")

  puts "request count:                      #{document.request_count}"
  puts "onload event fired:                 #{document.onload_event}"
  puts "dom content event fired:            #{document.dom_content_event}"
  puts "payload document encoded bytes:     #{document.encoded_bytes("Document")}"
  puts "payload script encoded bytes:       #{document.encoded_bytes("Script")}"
  puts "payload image encoded bytes:        #{document.encoded_bytes("Image")}"
  puts "payload stylesheet encoded bytes:   #{document.encoded_bytes("Stylesheet")}"
  puts "payload other encoded bytes:        #{document.encoded_bytes("Other")}"
  puts "payload document bytes:             #{document.bytes("Document")}"
  puts "payload script bytes:               #{document.bytes("Script")}"
  puts "payload image bytes:                #{document.bytes("Image")}"
  puts "payload stylesheet bytes:           #{document.bytes("Stylesheet")}"
  puts "payload other bytes:                #{document.bytes("Other")}"
  puts "script requests:                    #{document.request_count_by_resource("Script")}"
  puts "image requests:                     #{document.request_count_by_resource("Image")}"
  puts "stylesheet requests:                #{document.request_count_by_resource("Stylesheet")}"
end

Refer to the ChromeDebugger::Client and ChromeDebugger::Document classes for detailed docs.

ChromeDebugger::Client starts and manages a new chrome session.

ChromeDebugger::Document provides an entry point for querying the results of a page load.

chrome_debugger

Runtime

Chrome Debugger

Installation

Extra Requirements

Usage

Authors

Justin Morris

James Healy

Further Reading

TODO

License