Target Domain
Supports additional targets discovery and allows to attach to them.
Methods
- Target.activateTarget
- Target.attachToTarget
- Target.closeTarget
- Target.createBrowserContext
- Target.createTarget
- Target.detachFromTarget
- Target.disposeBrowserContext
- Target.getBrowserContexts
- Target.getTargets
- Target.setAutoAttach
- Target.setDiscoverTargets
Events
- Target.receivedMessageFromTarget
- Target.targetCrashed
- Target.targetCreated
- Target.targetDestroyed
- Target.targetInfoChanged
Types
Methods
Target.attachToTarget #
Attaches to the target with given id.
Parameters
targetId
flatten
Optional
boolean
Enables "flat" access to the session via specifying sessionId attribute in the commands. We plan to make this the default, deprecate non-flattened mode, and eventually retire it. See crbug.com/991325.
Return object
sessionId
Id assigned to the session.
Target.closeTarget #
Closes the target. If the target is a page that gets closed too.
Parameters
targetId
Return object
success
boolean
Always set to true. If an error occurs, the response indicates protocol error.
Target.createBrowserContext #
Creates a new empty BrowserContext. Similar to an incognito profile but you can have more than one.
Parameters
disposeOnDetach
Optional
boolean
If specified, disposes this context when debugging session disconnects.
proxyServer
Optional
string
Proxy server, similar to the one passed to --proxy-server
proxyBypassList
Optional
string
Proxy bypass list, similar to the one passed to --proxy-bypass-list
originsWithUniversalNetworkAccess
Optional
array[ string
]
An optional list of origins to grant unlimited cross-origin access to. Parts of the URL other than those constituting origin are ignored.
Return object
browserContextId
The id of the context created.
Target.createTarget #
Creates a new page.
Parameters
url
string
The initial URL the page will be navigated to. An empty string indicates about:blank.
width
Optional
integer
Frame width in DIP (headless chrome only).
height
Optional
integer
Frame height in DIP (headless chrome only).
browserContextId
Optional
enableBeginFrameControl
Optional
boolean
Whether BeginFrames for this target will be controlled via DevTools (headless chrome only, not supported on MacOS yet, false by default).
newWindow
Optional
boolean
Whether to create a new Window or Tab (chrome-only, false by default).
background
Optional
boolean
Whether to create the target in background or foreground (chrome-only, false by default).
forTab
Optional
boolean
Whether to create the target of type "tab".
Return object
targetId
The id of the page opened.
Target.detachFromTarget #
Detaches session with given id.
Parameters
sessionId
Optional
Session to detach.
targetId
Optional
Target.disposeBrowserContext #
Deletes a BrowserContext. All the belonging pages will be closed without calling their beforeunload hooks.
Parameters
browserContextId
Target.getBrowserContexts #
Returns all browser contexts created with Target.createBrowserContext
method.
Return object
browserContextIds
array[ Browser.BrowserContextID ]
An array of browser context ids.
Target.getTargets #
Retrieves a list of available targets.
Parameters
filter
Optional
Only targets matching filter will be reported. If filter is not specified and target discovery is currently enabled, a filter used for target discovery is used for consistency.
Return object
targetInfos
array[ TargetInfo ]
The list of targets.
Target.setAutoAttach #
Controls whether to automatically attach to new targets which are considered to be related to
this one. When turned on, attaches to all existing related targets as well. When turned off,
automatically detaches from all currently attached targets.
This also clears all targets added by autoAttachRelated
from the list of targets to watch
for creation of related targets.
Parameters
autoAttach
boolean
Whether to auto-attach to related targets.
waitForDebuggerOnStart
boolean
Whether to pause new targets when attaching to them. Use Runtime.runIfWaitingForDebugger
to run paused targets.
flatten
Optional
boolean
Enables "flat" access to the session via specifying sessionId attribute in the commands. We plan to make this the default, deprecate non-flattened mode, and eventually retire it. See crbug.com/991325.
filter
Optional
Target.setDiscoverTargets #
Controls whether to discover available targets and notify via
targetCreated/targetInfoChanged/targetDestroyed
events.
Parameters
discover
boolean
Whether to discover available targets.
filter
Optional
Only targets matching filter will be attached. If discover
is false,
filter
must be omitted or empty.
Events
Target.receivedMessageFromTarget #
Notifies about a new protocol message received from the session (as reported in
attachedToTarget
event).
Parameters
sessionId
Identifier of a session which sends a message.
message
string
targetId
Optional
Target.targetCrashed #
Issued when a target has crashed.
Parameters
targetId
status
string
Termination status type.
errorCode
integer
Termination error code.
Target.targetInfoChanged #
Issued when some information about a target has changed. This only happens between
targetCreated
and targetDestroyed
.
Parameters
targetInfo
Types
Target.TargetInfo #
Type: object
Properties
targetId
type
string
List of types: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:content/browser/devtools/devtools_agent_host_impl.cc?ss=chromium&q=f:devtools%20-f:out%20%22::kTypeTab%5B%5D%22
title
string
url
string
attached
boolean
Whether the target has an attached client.
openerId
Optional
Opener target Id
canAccessOpener
boolean
Whether the target has access to the originating window.
openerFrameId
Optional
browserContextId
Optional
subtype
Optional
string
Provides additional details for specific target types. For example, for the type of "page", this may be set to "portal" or "prerender".