Remote debugging javascript on iPad from a Windows machine possible?

Question

I have an iPad with iOS 6.1 connected to a windows 8 machine. I would like to be able to debug some javascript code running on the iPad.

The safari on iPad has a web inspect option that needs the iPad to be connected by wire to computer and then can be accessed in Safari for desktop's develop menu. I installed Safari 5 for Windows but don't see the iPad detected in the develop menu.

Any other ideas ?

See also [Weinre](http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre-docs/latest/). It's not a javascript *debugger*, but it might still be useful. — DCoder, Mar 10 '13 at 15:45
It [doesn't work in Windows](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12598415/safari-remote-debugging-on-windows); at least because it requires Safari 6. — tc., Mar 10 '13 at 19:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 16 '15 at 18:16

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The Firefox Tools Adaptor allows one to use Firefox DevTools for Safari on iOS.

https://github.com/mozilla/valence#debugging-safari-firefox-and-other-webviews-on-ios

answered Jun 16 '15 at 18:16

erikvold

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 03 '15 at 13:07

For remote debuggin I use Weinre.

Weinre has almost everything you need, but lacks a JavaScript debugger.

It has a WebInspector for DOM manipulations, network traffic, timeline, resources and a console.

Checkout this project on GitHub: weinre-remote-debug to setup weinre locally.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Another option described on this page is jsconsole.com. By appending a <script> tag to your page (or running a bookmarklet on your device) you get access to a JS console.

To start, go to jsconsole.com and run :listen in the prompt. This will give you a unique session ID and a script tag that you insert into your mobile web page.