How to copy the objects from chrome console window?

Question

I have tried to copy the objects as text, but it show just [object object]. Before this I had tried with copy commend it was success but not now.Is that chrome issue?

What I tried? Just Right click on the object and store as global variable from chrome console window, then next just used copy(temp6) command and tried to paste in notepad++.

Answer 1

It should ideally copy the object with the copy command that you wrote. I just tried it and worked for me.
Something else that you can try to do is to stringify that object and then copy it.
Ex.

copy(JSON.stringify(temp6)) 

Answer 2

If the object already logged

• Right-click on the object in console and click Store as a global
• variable the output will be something like temp1

• Copy and paste below code in chrome console and hit enter

  (function(console){     console.save = function(data, filename){      if(!data) {         console.error('Console.save: No data')         return;     }      if(!filename) filename = 'console.json'      if(typeof data === "object"){         data = JSON.stringify(data, undefined, 4)     }      var blob = new Blob([data], {type: 'text/json'}),         e    = document.createEvent('MouseEvents'),         a    = document.createElement('a')      a.download = filename     a.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob)     a.dataset.downloadurl =  ['text/json', a.download, a.href].join(':')     e.initMouseEvent('click', true, false, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null)     a.dispatchEvent(e)  } })(console) 

  • Then you can use the function for downloading,

console.save(temp1);

-If it shows Uncaught TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON

then you need decycle JSON object and paste below code in chrome browser console and hit enter

if (typeof JSON.decycle !== "function") {     JSON.decycle = function decycle(object, replacer) {         "use strict";          var objects = new WeakMap();     // object to path mappings          return (function derez(value, path) {               var old_path;               var nu;                if (replacer !== undefined) {                 value = replacer(value);             }              if (                 typeof value === "object" && value !== null &&                 !(value instanceof Boolean) &&                 !(value instanceof Date) &&                 !(value instanceof Number) &&                 !(value instanceof RegExp) &&                 !(value instanceof String)             ) {                   old_path = objects.get(value);                 if (old_path !== undefined) {                     return {$ref: old_path};                 }                  objects.set(value, path);                  if (Array.isArray(value)) {                     nu = [];                     value.forEach(function (element, i) {                         nu[i] = derez(element, path + "[" + i + "]");                     });                 } else {                      nu = {};                     Object.keys(value).forEach(function (name) {                         nu[name] = derez(                             value[name],                             path + "[" + JSON.stringify(name) + "]"                         );                     });                 }                 return nu;             }             return value;         }(object, "$"));     }; }   if (typeof JSON.retrocycle !== "function") {     JSON.retrocycle = function retrocycle($) {         "use strict";          var px = /^\$(?:\[(?:\d+|"(?:[^\\"\u0000-\u001f]|\\([\\"\/bfnrt]|u[0-9a-zA-Z]{4}))*")\])*$/;          (function rez(value) {                if (value && typeof value === "object") {                 if (Array.isArray(value)) {                     value.forEach(function (element, i) {                         if (typeof element === "object" && element !== null) {                             var path = element.$ref;                             if (typeof path === "string" && px.test(path)) {                                 value[i] = eval(path);                             } else {                                 rez(element);                             }                         }                     });                 } else {                     Object.keys(value).forEach(function (name) {                         var item = value[name];                         if (typeof item === "object" && item !== null) {                             var path = item.$ref;                             if (typeof path === "string" && px.test(path)) {                                 value[name] = eval(path);                             } else {                                 rez(item);                             }                         }                     });                 }             }         }($));         return $;     }; } 

• Then finally execute code for downloading.

console.save(JSON.decycle(temp1));