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Chrome console api - change network throttling programmatically

Does the chrome developer console have an API to change the network throttle?

I've been looking through the documentation and not come across anything yet, however is there perhaps an undocumented / dug deep somewhere feature?

Solution

  • I'm the technical writer for DevTools. I'm just going to answer this question narrowly:

    Does the chrome developer console have an API to change the network throttle?

    No. There is no API that you can run from the DevTools Console that allows you to change the network throttling speed. You can file a feature request at https://crbug.com. If you do create a request, please post the URL as a comment to this answer, and I'll update this answer to point people to that ticket. The more people star the request, the higher priority it gets.

    P.S. when I say "the Console" I'm referring to this "tab" (we call them "panels"):

    The Console

    The collective set of features is just called DevTools.