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Samy Kamkar's website, http://samy.pl, knows when the console is being opened and wipes the source/console when it does open.
How does this work?
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If the devtools are closed, console. log is a no-op. That's the key that lets you detect if the devtools are open: detecting if the log operation is a no-op. In the process of writing element to the console, it gets the id of the element.
Under Chrome's Elements view, try Inspect-ing an element (right-click, Inspect); then, on the right side of the developer view, scroll down to Event Listeners. Here you can view what code files have hooked up an event.
Permanent Inspect Element. This extension lets you save the changes you make to a static web page using Inspect Element to remain there even after you refresh the page.
This took some digging. samy.pl has several levels of indirection and obfuscation on top of this code. It uses a different version of the detection code than the GitHub repository found by JohanP. The code in samy.pl, unlike the GitHub repository, can detect the devtools when they are not docked.
It does so by using a short script that executes differently depending on whether devtools is open or closed.
Here's a self-contained example; open it in a browser and notice how the output changes as the devtools are opened and closed (whether it is docked or not):
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <pre id="output"></pre> <script type="text/javascript"> var element = new Image; var devtoolsOpen = false; element.__defineGetter__("id", function() { devtoolsOpen = true; // This only executes when devtools is open. }); setInterval(function() { devtoolsOpen = false; console.log(element); document.getElementById('output').innerHTML += (devtoolsOpen ? "dev tools is open\n" : "dev tools is closed\n"); }, 1000); </script> </body> </html> The setInterval is executed every second. console.log always executes, whether the devtools are open or closed: The console object is always defined. However, the log method only writes output to the console when the devtools are open. If the devtools are closed, console.log is a no-op. That's the key that lets you detect if the devtools are open: detecting if the log operation is a no-op.
In the process of writing element to the console, it gets the id of the element. That calls the function attached with __defineGetter__. Therefore, console.log(element) only calls that function when the devtools are open and console.log is not a no-op. The flag is set in that function, giving us an updated view of the devtools state every second.
samy.pl uses some additional tricks to hide this: the console is also cleared every second, and this code is obfuscated with a whitespace (!) encoding.
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