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Overview The status command displays information about the active session including process IDs, runtime duration, collected data counts, and Chrome diagnostics.
Syntax Options Output as JSON for programmatic use Show detailed Chrome diagnostics (process info, CDP connection details) Examples Basic Status Output: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SESSION ACTIVE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Status: Running Duration: 2m 34s Target: https://example.com Title: Example Domain ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ COLLECTED DATA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Network: 47 requests Console: 12 messages DOM: Captured on session stop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PROCESS INFO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BDG PID: 12345 Chrome PID: 12346 CDP Port: 9222
Verbose Status Additional output includes: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHROME DIAGNOSTICS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WebSocket: ws://localhost:9222/devtools/page/ABC123... Target ID: ABC123-DEF456-GHI789 Page State: loaded
JSON Output Output: { "version" : "0.5.1" , "success" : true , "data" : { "active" : true , "sessionPid" : 12345 , "chromePid" : 12346 , "port" : 9222 , "startTime" : "2025-03-05T10:30:00.000Z" , "duration" : 154000 , "targetId" : "ABC123-DEF456-GHI789" , "webSocketDebuggerUrl" : "ws://localhost:9222/devtools/page/ABC123..." , "activeTelemetry" : [ "dom" , "network" , "console" ], "activity" : { "network" : 47 , "console" : 12 }, "pageState" : { "url" : "https://example.com" , "title" : "Example Domain" , "loadState" : "loaded" } } }
No Active Session Output: No active session. Start a session with: bdg <url>
JSON Output: { "version" : "0.5.1" , "success" : true , "data" : { "active" : false , "activity" : null , "pageState" : null } }
Status Fields Session Info
Status : Session state (Running)Duration : Time elapsed since session start (e.g., 2m 34s)Target : Current page URLTitle : Current page title
Collected Data
Network : Number of network requests capturedConsole : Number of console messages capturedDOM : Indicates DOM capture happens on session stop
Process Info
BDG PID : Browser Debugger daemon process IDChrome PID : Chrome browser process IDCDP Port : Chrome DevTools Protocol debugging port
Chrome Diagnostics (Verbose)
WebSocket : CDP WebSocket connection URLTarget ID : Chrome target/page identifierPage State : Page load state (loading, loaded, networkIdle)
Use Cases Check Session Before Running Commands # Verify session is active before querying if bdg status --json | jq -e '.data.active' > /dev/null ; then bdg dom query "button" else echo "No active session. Starting one..." bdg example.com fi
Monitor Collection Progress # Watch collection stats in real-time watch -n 2 'bdg status' # Or with jq for specific fields watch -n 2 'bdg status --json | jq ".data.activity"'
Get Process IDs for System Monitoring # Extract Chrome PID for resource monitoring CHROME_PID = $( bdg status --json | jq -r '.data.chromePid' ) ps -p $CHROME_PID -o %cpu,%mem,vsz # Kill Chrome manually if needed kill $CHROME_PID
Debug Connection Issues # Show full diagnostics for troubleshooting bdg status --verbose # Check CDP WebSocket connection bdg status --json | jq -r '.data.webSocketDebuggerUrl'
Exit Codes Status retrieved successfully (even if no active session)
Daemon not running (stale session files cleaned up)
Unexpected error while retrieving status
Exit code 0 doesn’t mean a session is active - check the active field in output. Exit code 83 means the daemon isn’t running (no session files found).
bdg start Start a new browser session
bdg peek Preview collected data in detail
bdg stop Stop session and save data
bdg cleanup Clean up stale session files
Tips Automation : Use bdg status --json | jq -e '.data.active' to check if a session exists before running commands. Exit code 0 = active, 1 = no session.
Debugging : If bdg status shows no session but you expect one, run bdg cleanup --force to remove stale files, then start a fresh session.
Daemon Connection : If the daemon crashed but left session files, status will detect the stale PID and automatically clean it up.
