snippets are no longer available via localStorage

[paulirish]

We made snippets (among other settings) available from incognito. I think this change landed in Chrome stable around 46/47 or so.

As a result, they are no longer available in localStorage. Here's the new technique. These are run from a devtools-on-devtools window.

getting snippets

InspectorFrontendHost.getPreferences(_ => console.log(JSON.parse(_.scriptSnippets)))

setting snippets

InspectorFrontendHost.setPreference("scriptSnippets", JSON.stringify(yourSnippets))

FWIW, InspectorFrontendHost.getPreferences will return everything that has migrated to the incognito-available settings (most things), while a few items (like breakpoints) remain in the devtools' localStorage

Tagging a few other issues that use this technique:

• Figure out how to cache / store / update snippets better #6
• Is that possible to store snippets in files and load into Chrome? bgrins/devtools-snippets#28
• Developer Tools Import/Export Snippet for Google Chrome bgrins/devtools-snippets#35
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19025718/which-file-does-snippets-of-chrome-dev-tool-saved-at

[soundyogi]

Thanks for the info, helped me tremendously.

I have tried updating the update-code-snippets and started to work on a gui manager script.
Seems to work ok so far:

https://github.com/soundyogi/code-snippets/blob/master/update-code-snippets.js
https://gist.github.com/soundyogi/03df95505604c8351212

I will file a PR when I added support for the old version aswell.

[bahmutov]

cool, will update the updater snippet at some point

[cole-gillespie]

It seems there is no way to map snippets to localSystem. Is mapping snippets to local file system a valid use case or is there something obvious I am missing?

[soundyogi]

Not that I know of, I wrote a little module "require" that required some snippets before others but even for that you need to Inspect the Inspector ... I guess snippets are to sandboxed for local mapping?

[Commandtechno]

now InspectorFrontendHost is gone as well

[Vijaythepro]

is there any way of importing snippets now.
InspectorFrontendHost is not defined now