How to add negative filter in network tab of Chrome DevTools?

Question

I would like to hide some packets in the Network developper tool of chrome. I am having a lot of olark calls that I would like to hide :

p?j=olark-21408520578584&&c=polleven[...]
p?j=olark-1408520582743&&c=polleven[...]
p?j=olark-41408520586905&&c=polleven[...]
p?j=olark-51408520591078&&c=polleven[...]
...

What should I write in the filter to hide those ? ^p?j=olark does not work, nor does !p?j=olark

Answer 1

Note sure you're talking about the Network tab or the Console tab: I'll answer about both cases.

Network tab

Similar to Google's search operators, you can use the minus sign to filter out stuff in the network view, see the examples below.

Here you have the start network list:

If you type -, you'll see a list of types that you can select to filter:

Note that at the same time the resource names are filtered to those containing the minus sign:

For example you can filter out the GET requests:

:

If you instead type a word, it will exclude all resources containing that word:

Console tab

At the moment (*) you can't use the minus search operator, but you can use regular expressions.

For example to exclude the word browser-sync I use ^((?!browser-sync).)*$.

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(*) Chrome 44.0.2403.125