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i want to check the network tab in inspect/developer tool,want to open that screen directly from my code in selenium webdriver in java. or simply how can i press F12 button by my script

Pranjal
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Opening dev tools is pretty simple:

import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
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Robot robot = new Robot();
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_F12);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_F12);

But it will open the last tab opened. Since Selenium uses a new temporary browser profile you will need:

  1. run Chrome manualy
  2. open dev tools and Network tab
  3. run Chrome in that profile, which had opened the Network tab

You can dedicate a browser profile for your tests to achieve opening Network tab in every run.

pburgr
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