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I love Google Chrome's DevTools. But, when debugging I sometimes need to search for a particular property or value in a JSON request/response object (within a request/response in the "Network" tab). This can be tedious if the JSON object is large. Do the DevTools support such a search?

In the example below, I was hoping that searching for "new_user" would highlight the property in the JSON object shown.

UPDATE: Since this question was asked, this functionality has been added to Chrome!

Lee
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No existing functionality to search the json tree view. You can file a new issue in the issue tracker to see if it could get added.

Garbee
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  • Thanks, Jonathan. Have you received requests for such a feature before? Will it be worthwhile to file such a ticket or will it gather dust? – Lee Jul 07 '15 at 12:46
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    Thanks for asking if we received it before, just checked and [sure enough we have one](https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=402656). So go star that issue to let the team know you want it done. Also comment with a link to your question so the team can see another use-case for the feature. – Garbee Jul 07 '15 at 12:52
  • Thanks for the prompt attention. Will do and happy coding. – Lee Jul 07 '15 at 12:54
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The feature seem to be now implemented:

  1. Click on the XHR request you want to see.
  2. Click on the "Preview" or "Response" tab and do CTRL + F
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Workaround in Chrome (Really wish this was natively available):

  1. Filter by Fetch/XHR
  2. Select all
  3. Save all as HAR with content
  4. Open the file with your favorite text editor
  5. Search
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