Detecting if ChromeDevTools are open

[agzam]

I need to detect if Chrome DevTools panel is open or not from Hammerspoon module. Can someone suggest a way? Thanks!

[asmagill]

If you developer panel is in a separate window, then the window finder ability should be able to detect it with something like hs.window("Developer Tools"). It it's a panel in the main window, I'm not aware of a way using the core modules of Hammerspoon.

It might be possible with a third party module hs._asm.axuielement, but this is still very raw and you'd need to do a lot of experimentation to come up with an efficient search path, if it's even possible -- it depends upon how accessibility compliant chrome and it's developer panel are.

[cmsj]

Sadly Chrome doesn't seem to indicate the state of the DevTools panel in the menus, otherwise that would be a good way to check. I don't think there is going to be any way around this other than @asmagill 's suggestions. Sorry!