How to open chrome developer console using Selenium in Python?

Question

I am trying to open developer console in chrome using selenium webdriver. I am doing

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.common import action_chains, keys

...

browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\chrm\chromedriver.exe") browser.get("https://www.facebook.com/groups/GNexus5/")

...

action = action_chains.ActionChains(browser)

action.send_keys(keys.Keys.CONTROL+keys.Keys.SHIFT+'j')

action.perform()

But it is not opening up developer console. I have tried other keys (just typing some key-strokes, control-selecting some element) and they are working.

I am using ChromeDriver

Answer 1

Tell selenium to include a ''auto-open-devtools-for-tabs'' when launching chrome, here is an example using nightwatch configuration:

...

chrome: {
  desiredCapabilities: {
    browserName: 'chrome',
    javascriptEnabled: true,
    acceptSslCerts: true,
    chromeOptions: {
      'args': ['incognito', 'disable-extensions', 'auto-open-devtools-for-tabs']
    }
  }
},
...

Answer 2

With pyautogui you can do the keyboard press and open the console in the tab you have in foucs.

    import pyautogui
    pyautogui.keyDown('ctrl')
    pyautogui.keyDown('shift')
    pyautogui.press('j')
    pyautogui.keyUp('ctrl')
    pyautogui.keyUp('shift')