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

1. Start Appium server with the inspector plugin enabled:

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

2. Access the Inspector interface by navigating to:

http://localhost:4723/inspector

Development

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

Release

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

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

License

Apache-2.0