Appium-inspector-plugin NPM

Appium Inspector Plugin

A plugin that integrates the Appium Inspector directly into your Appium server installation, providing a web-based interface for inspecting and interacting with your application under test.

Features

Web-based Appium Inspector interface accessible via /inspector endpoint with appium server
Full feature parity with standalone Appium Inspector

Installation

appium plugin install --source=npm appium-inspector-plugin

!Note Appium 3 will support this plugin as a first-class plugin with appium plugin install inspector

Usage

Start Appium server with the inspector plugin enabled:

appium --use-plugins=inspector --allow-cors

Access the Inspector interface by navigating to:

http://localhost:4723/inspector

Development

git clone this repositiry
Run npm install in /path/to/appium-inspector/plugins
appium plugin install --source=local /path/to/appium-inspector/plugins
Update the plugin content with npm run build:plugin in /path/to/appium-inspector
Start Appium with appium --use-plugins=inspector --allow-cors

Release

(TODO: add this release steps in .github/workflows/package.yml later as another PR)

Run npm run plugin:sync:version to sync the version with the root project.json
Run npm publish in /path/to/appium-inspector/plugins to publish the module