View and edit local storage

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This guide shows you how to use Chrome DevTools to view, edit, and delete localStorage key-value pairs. Local storage saves data across browser sessions.

View localStorage keys and values

  1. Open DevTools on the website you want to inspect.

  2. Navigate to Application > Storage and expand Local Storage. Click a domain to view its key-value pairs.

    The key-value pairs of youtube.com.

  3. To preview the value below the table, select a pair.

    Viewing the value of the selected key.

To manually refresh the key-value pairs, click Refresh. Refresh in the action bar at the top.

Filter key-value pairs

To quickly find a key-value pair you need, type into the filter box at the top a string that either the key or value contains.

Filtering out key-value pairs that don't contain the string 'has'.

Create a new localStorage key-value pair

  1. View the domain's localStorage key-value pairs. For example, on this demo page.
  2. Double-click the empty part of the table. DevTools creates a new row and focuses your cursor in the Key column.
  3. Enter a new key-value pair.

Edit localStorage keys or values

  1. View a domain's localStorage key-value pairs. For example, on this demo page.
  2. Double-click a cell in the Key or Value column to edit that key or value.
  3. Refresh the page to apply.

Delete localStorage key-value pairs

  1. View a domain's localStorage key-value pairs. For example, on this demo page.
  2. Click a key-value pair to select it.
  3. Click Delete. Delete in the action bar at the top to remove the selected pair. Deleting the selected key-value pair.
  4. Alternatively, click Clear all. Clear all to remove all pairs.

Interact with localStorage from the Console

Since you can run JavaScript in the Console, and since the Console has access to the page's JavaScript contexts, it's possible to interact with localStorage from the Console.

  1. In DevTools, open the Console.
  2. If you want to access the localStorage key-value pairs of a domain other than the page you're on, select the JavaScript context you need from the context drop-down menu in the action bar at the top.
  3. Run your localStorage expressions in the Console, the same as you would in your JavaScript.

Interacting with `localStorage` from the Console