Put a value in webkit console from console.log into a variable

Question

If there is an output in the chrome/safari webkit inspector containing an object that prints out such as:

Only much more complicated with loads of nested objects (which is why a copy/paste wont do)

Is there a way to put this in a variable to inspect in further and process it after its been printed on the console (its printed via console.log), just only after its already in the console?

Answer 1

$_ will give you last output of console. So in console you can assign in to a variable.

Note that you can do this only in console and not from your own code.

Answer 2

Here's a way to do it without wrapping console.log in a custom log function:

var justLogged;
var oldLog = console.log;

console.log = function () {
    oldLog.apply(console, arguments);
    justLogged = arguments;
};

console.log('test');

// if necessary, restore console.log to its original behavior when you're finished with it
console.log = oldLog;

The value of justLogged will be ['test'], since you just logged it.