Chrome extension: how to programmatically inspect extension's background page

问题

How does one programmatically open the Developer Tools window of a Chrome extension's background page using the Chrome Extensions API?

Essentially, I'm looking to achieve the programmatic equivalent of manually clicking on the "inspect background page" link of a given Chrome extension.

回答1:

Interesting question.

I don't think there is a way to do it; Google's own app, Chrome Apps & Extensions Developer Tool, uses a private API for this:

// Opens the devtools inspect window for the page.
chrome.developerPrivate.inspect({
  extension_id: String(item.id),
  render_process_id: String(view.render_process_id),
  render_view_id: String(view.render_view_id),
  incognito: view.incognito,
});

Obviously, this only works in specially-whitelisted apps and extensions.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28064942/chrome-extension-how-to-programmatically-inspect-extensions-background-page