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I'm working in an app that makes many Ajax calls and results in a huge Network log in the Chrome inspector. I know that there are ways to query by things like mime-type, but I'm looking for a more fully-featured query capability.

For example, I'd like to be able to only see the pub/sub polling calls with a query like:

request_url:match(/pubnub.com/)

Or just see the GETs with:

request_method:GET

Is there a tool that makes queries like this possible?

steel
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You have a several options available. There are various pre-defined filter modes, as mentioned in the Network Analysis Reference (as you referenced in your question).

You can use the method filter with method:GET or method:POST in the input to only show requests of a particular method type. If you place a - beforehand, the filter will negate, e.g. -method:GET, will show all requests other than ones that are GETs.

There's also a filter type called domain, which is useful for only showing requests that match a particular domain. The options are limited though:

  • domain:stackoverflow.com would show all requests for the StackOverflow domain.
  • domain:*.google.co.uk would show all requests that are sub-domains of Google UK.

Filtering request path (Method 1)

There's a better approach to filtering particular request paths. You can simply put pubnub.com in the filter input and it will match exactly what you put. You can also negate it with - beforehand, so entering -pubnub.com will show all requests that don't contain that in the path.

Filtering request path (Method 2)

You can also use Regex in the filter input, but not for the special filter modes (e.g. method, domain, etc.). So, in your case you could also use /pubnub.com/ as you filter. You can do more complex regular expressions, for instance, using /^((?!pubnub.com).)*$/ would do the equivalent of -pubnub.com via negative lookahead.

The reason I highlight Method 2 is because I fixed the feature a while ago in DevTools, as a result of another similar question that ended up being a bug in Method 1. Both bugs are completely fixed now though. See this for history of the problem if you're interested.

Gideon Pyzer
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