refactor: detect DevTools page for each page

src/DevtoolsUtils.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Google LLC
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+export function extractUrlLikeFromDevToolsTitle(
+  title: string,
+): string | undefined {
+  const match = title.match(new RegExp(`DevTools - (.*)`));
+  return match?.[1] ?? undefined;
+}
+
+export function urlsEqual(url1: string, url2: string): boolean {
+  const normalizedUrl1 = normalizeUrl(url1);
+  const normalizedUrl2 = normalizeUrl(url2);
+  return normalizedUrl1 === normalizedUrl2;
+}
+
+/**
+ * For the sake of the MCP server, when we determine if two URLs are equal we
+ * remove some parts:
+ *
+ * 1. We do not care about the protocol.
+ * 2. We do not care about trailing slashes.
+ * 3. We do not care about "www".
+ *
+ * For example, if the user types "record a trace on foo.com", we would want to
+ * match a tab in the connected Chrome instance that is showing "www.foo.com/"
+ */
+function normalizeUrl(url: string): string {
+  let result = url.trim();
+
+  // Remove protocols
+  if (result.startsWith('https://')) {
+    result = result.slice(8);
+  } else if (result.startsWith('http://')) {
+    result = result.slice(7);
+  }
+
+  // Remove 'www.'. This ensures that we find the right URL regardless of if the user adds `www` or not.
+  if (result.startsWith('www.')) {
+    result = result.slice(4);
+  }
+
+  // Remove trailing slash
+  if (result.endsWith('/')) {
+    result = result.slice(0, -1);
+  }
+
+  return result;
+}

src/McpContext.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import fs from 'node:fs/promises';
 import os from 'node:os';
 import path from 'node:path';
 
+import {extractUrlLikeFromDevToolsTitle, urlsEqual} from './DevtoolsUtils.js';
 import type {ListenerMap} from './PageCollector.js';
 import {NetworkCollector, PageCollector} from './PageCollector.js';
 import {Locator} from './third_party/index.js';
@@ -40,8 +41,8 @@ export interface TextSnapshot {
 }
 
 interface McpContextOptions {
-  // Whether the DevTools windows are exposed as pages.
-  devtools: boolean;
+  // Whether the DevTools windows are exposed as pages for debugging of DevTools.
+  experimentalDevToolsDebugging: boolean;
 }
 
 const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 5_000;
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ export class McpContext implements Context {
 
   // The most recent page state.
   #pages: Page[] = [];
+  #pageToDevToolsPage = new Map<Page, Page>();
   #selectedPageIdx = 0;
   // The most recent snapshot.
   #textSnapshot: TextSnapshot | null = null;
@@ -324,19 +326,57 @@ export class McpContext implements Context {
    * Creates a snapshot of the pages.
    */
   async createPagesSnapshot(): Promise<Page[]> {
-    this.#pages = (await this.browser.pages()).filter(page => {
-      if (page.url().startsWith('devtools://')) {
-        return this.#options.devtools;
-      }
-      return true;
+    const allPages = await this.browser.pages();
+
+    this.#pages = allPages.filter(page => {
+      // If we allow debugging DevTools windows, return all pages.
+      // If we are in regular mode, the user should only see non-DevTools page.
+      return (
+        this.#options.experimentalDevToolsDebugging ||
+        !page.url().startsWith('devtools://')
+      );
     });
+
+    await this.#detectOpenDevToolsWindows(allPages);
+
     return this.#pages;
   }
 
+  async #detectOpenDevToolsWindows(pages: Page[]) {
+    this.#pageToDevToolsPage = new Map<Page, Page>();
+    for (const devToolsPage of pages) {
+      if (devToolsPage.url().startsWith('devtools://')) {
+        try {
+          const data = await devToolsPage
+            // @ts-expect-error no types for _client().
+            ._client()
+            .send('Target.getTargetInfo');
+          const devtoolsPageTitle = data.targetInfo.title;
+          const urlLike = extractUrlLikeFromDevToolsTitle(devtoolsPageTitle);
+          if (!urlLike) {
+            continue;
+          }
+          // TODO: lookup without a loop.
+          for (const page of this.#pages) {
+            if (urlsEqual(page.url(), urlLike)) {
+              this.#pageToDevToolsPage.set(page, devToolsPage);
+            }
+          }
+        } catch {
+          // no-op
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   getPages(): Page[] {
     return this.#pages;
   }
 
+  getDevToolsPage(page: Page): Page | undefined {
+    return this.#pageToDevToolsPage.get(page);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Creates a text snapshot of a page.
    */

src/browser.ts

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export async function ensureBrowserConnected(options: {
   const connectOptions: Parameters<typeof puppeteer.connect>[0] = {
     targetFilter: makeTargetFilter(),
     defaultViewport: null,
-    handleDevToolsAsPage: options.devtools,
+    handleDevToolsAsPage: true,
   };
 
   if (options.wsEndpoint) {
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ export async function launch(options: McpLaunchOptions): Promise<Browser> {
       headless,
       args,
       acceptInsecureCerts: options.acceptInsecureCerts,
-      handleDevToolsAsPage: options.devtools,
+      handleDevToolsAsPage: true,
     });
     if (options.logFile) {
       // FIXME: we are probably subscribing too late to catch startup logs. We

src/main.ts

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ async function getContext(): Promise<McpContext> {
 
   if (context?.browser !== browser) {
     context = await McpContext.from(browser, logger, {
-      devtools,
+      experimentalDevToolsDebugging: devtools,
     });
   }
   return context;

tests/DevtoolsUtils.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Google LLC
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+import assert from 'node:assert';
+import {describe, it} from 'node:test';
+
+import {
+  extractUrlLikeFromDevToolsTitle,
+  urlsEqual,
+} from '../src/DevtoolsUtils.js';
+
+describe('extractUrlFromDevToolsTitle', () => {
+  it('deals with no trailing /', () => {
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      extractUrlLikeFromDevToolsTitle('DevTools - example.com'),
+      'example.com',
+    );
+  });
+  it('deals with a trailing /', () => {
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      extractUrlLikeFromDevToolsTitle('DevTools - example.com/'),
+      'example.com/',
+    );
+  });
+  it('deals with www', () => {
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      extractUrlLikeFromDevToolsTitle('DevTools - www.example.com/'),
+      'www.example.com/',
+    );
+  });
+  it('deals with complex url', () => {
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      extractUrlLikeFromDevToolsTitle(
+        'DevTools - www.example.com/path.html?a=b#3',
+      ),
+      'www.example.com/path.html?a=b#3',
+    );
+  });
+});
+
+describe('urlsEqual', () => {
+  it('ignores trailing slashes', () => {
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      urlsEqual('https://google.com/', 'https://google.com'),
+      true,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('ignores www', () => {
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      urlsEqual('https://google.com/', 'https://www.google.com'),
+      true,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('ignores protocols', () => {
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      urlsEqual('https://google.com/', 'http://www.google.com'),
+      true,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('does not ignore other subdomains', () => {
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      urlsEqual('https://google.com/', 'https://photos.google.com'),
+      false,
+    );
+  });
+});

tests/McpContext.test.ts

@@ -78,4 +78,22 @@ describe('McpContext', () => {
       sinon.assert.calledWithExactly(stub, page, 2, 10);
     });
   });
+
+  it('should should detect open DevTools pages', async () => {
+    await withBrowser(
+      async (_response, context) => {
+        const page = await context.newPage();
+        // TODO: we do not know when the CLI flag to auto open DevTools will run
+        // so we need this until
+        // https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/14368 is there.
+        await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 5000));
+        await context.createPagesSnapshot();
+        assert.ok(context.getDevToolsPage(page));
+      },
+      {
+        autoOpenDevToos: true,
+        force: true,
+      },
+    );
+  });
 });

tests/utils.ts

@@ -16,14 +16,16 @@ let browser: Browser | undefined;
 
 export async function withBrowser(
   cb: (response: McpResponse, context: McpContext) => Promise<void>,
-  options: {debug?: boolean} = {},
+  options: {debug?: boolean; autoOpenDevToos?: boolean; force?: boolean} = {},
 ) {
   const {debug = false} = options;
-  if (!browser) {
+  if (!browser || options.force) {
     browser = await puppeteer.launch({
       executablePath: process.env.PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH,
       headless: !debug,
       defaultViewport: null,
+      devtools: options.autoOpenDevToos ?? false,
+      handleDevToolsAsPage: true,
     });
   }
   const newPage = await browser.newPage();
@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ export async function withBrowser(
     browser,
     logger('test'),
     {
-      devtools: false,
+      experimentalDevToolsDebugging: false,
     },
     Locator,
   );