Standalone Webkit WebInspector frontend extracted from Webkit sources.
You can use this tool to remotely debug a page on iOS device without a Mac computer and Apple tooling.
Note that you need to use a WebKit browser on your PC in order to load the inspector properly:
- Windows: https://playwright.azureedge.net/builds/webkit/1508/webkit-win64.zip (open Playwright.exe after unpacking)
- Linux: try Epiphany, WebKitGTK or WPE
- Mac: use Safari
To debug iOS devices you need to have ios-webkit-debug-proxy installed and running. This tool is able to redirect the raw WebKit inspector websocket using USB and expose it on the network, which is very convenient for us. Follow its installation instructions in order to get your device configured and the tool running and ensure you successfully got a log entry like Connected :9222 to iPhone in its console:
>ios_webkit_debug_proxy
Listing devices on :9221
Connected :9222 to iPhone (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
To start static server, run
node server.js
By default server will start on 8080, you can change server port providing the command-line argument, e.g. ./server.js 8000. Press CTRL+C to quit.
You can switch between versions using vX argument, allowed values are v7, v8, old, latest (default value).
./server v7
You can switch between protocol versions using proto=X argument. Check out lib/WebInspectorUI/latest/Protocol/Legacy folder for allowed values.
./server proto=iOS/15.4
Now just navigate to http://localhost:8080/Main.html?ws=localhost:9222/devtools/page/1 in your WebKit browser.
ws=... part can be taken from http://localhost:9222, "frontend" page of ios-webkit-debug-proxy tool:
<html><head><title>iPhone</title></head><body>Inspectable pages for <a title="aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa">iPhone</a>:<p><ol>
<li value="1"><a href="/devtools/devtools.html?ws=localhost:9222/devtools/page/1" title="">about:blank</a></li>
</ol></body></html>