# Console

Capture the JavaScript console output a page produces as it loads — errors, warnings and uncaught exceptions. Useful for monitoring third-party scripts, catching regressions and health-checking your own pages.

It uses no AI, and costs **1 credit** per call. See [Credits](https://urlpipe.dev/docs/credits).

POST/console

## Capture console messages

### Body parameters

- **Name**
  : `url`
  **Type**
  : string
  **Required**
  : Required
  **Description**
  : The absolute URL of the page to process. Rendered with headless Chrome, so JavaScript runs and redirects are followed. It must not include a username or password (`https://user:pass@example.com`).
- **Name**
  : `page_options`
  **Type**
  : object
  **Description**
  : Wait for the page, and remove ads, cookie banners or your own elements from it before it is read — gone from this result, not merely hidden. See [Page options](https://urlpipe.dev/docs/page-options).
- **Name**
  : `residential`
  **Type**
  : boolean
  **Description**
  : Fetch the page from a [residential exit](https://urlpipe.dev/docs/residential) — an address on a home broadband line rather than one in a datacentre. Reach for it when a site serves you less than it serves a browser, or nothing at all. Defaults to `false`. Adds **25 credits** per page fetch on top of what the operation costs, and its results are kept separate from the ordinary ones.
- **Name**
  : `report_to`
  **Type**
  : string
  **Description**
  : Webhook URL — an `http` or `https` address URLpipe POSTs the result to when it's ready. **Optional**: without it we deliver to your project's [default endpoint](https://urlpipe.dev/docs/async#where-results-go) if it has one, and otherwise send no webhook at all — the result still waits for you at [GET /result/:token](https://urlpipe.dev/docs/results). A value we cannot deliver to returns `422`. Ignored on a `sync=true` request. Deliveries can be [signed](https://urlpipe.dev/docs/async#signature) so your endpoint can verify they came from us.
- **Name**
  : `sync`
  **Type**
  : boolean
  **Description**
  : Process the request synchronously, returning the result inline in the response. Defaults to `false` (async: return a token now, and either receive the result at a [webhook](https://urlpipe.dev/docs/async#where-results-go) or fetch it with [GET /result/:token](https://urlpipe.dev/docs/results)). See [Async & sync modes](https://urlpipe.dev/docs/async) for the full contract.
- **Name**
  : `max_age`
  **Type**
  : string | integer
  **Description**
  : How fresh a cached result must be to be accepted. Either an **integer** number of seconds (`3600`) or a **duration string** of the form `"<number> <unit>"` — units `s`/`min`/`h`/`d`/`w` (e.g. `"2 hours"`, `"3 days"`, `"30m"`). Defaults to `7 days`, clamped to a max of `30 days`; `0` always bypasses the cache. See [Caching](https://urlpipe.dev/docs/caching) for all accepted units.
- **Name**
  : `labels`
  **Type**
  : object
  **Description**
  : Your own keys to find and account for this request by — a client, a project, a campaign: `{"client": "acme"}`. Returned with the result, in the webhook and in the `X-Labels` header, and your dashboard filters history and totals credits by them. Up to 16 keys; string values. See [Labels](https://urlpipe.dev/docs/labels).

### Response

Content type `application/json` — an array of message objects. An empty array `[]` means the page produced no errors or warnings.

### Message fields

- **Name**
  : `type`
  **Type**
  : string
  **Description**
  : One of `error`, `warning` or `exception`.
- **Name**
  : `text`
  **Type**
  : string
  **Description**
  : The message text.

```
curl -X POST https://urlpipe.dev/console \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://example.com"}'
```

Response

```
[
  {
    "type": "error",
    "text": "Cart failed to load: TypeError: Failed to fetch"
  },
  {
    "type": "warning",
    "text": "[analytics] consent not given, events are queued"
  },
  {
    "type": "exception",
    "text": "ReferenceError: bar is not defined"
  }
]
```

## Message types

- **Name**
  : `error`
  **Description**
  : From `console.error()` calls.
- **Name**
  : `warning`
  **Description**
  : From `console.warn()` calls.
- **Name**
  : `exception`
  **Description**
  : Uncaught JavaScript exceptions, and promise rejections nothing handled. Plain `console.log()` output is not captured.

## How it works

URLpipe loads the page in a headless browser, listens for console errors, warnings and uncaught exceptions, then waits briefly after the page's network activity settles so asynchronous scripts have time to run and report. All captured messages are returned together.

Messages come from the page itself. Scripts inside embedded frames — ads, widgets, third-party players — log to their own console, so what you get back is your page's output rather than everyone else's.

## Responses

Whatever the status, the response carries [metadata headers](https://urlpipe.dev/docs/response-headers): the result token, whether it was served from cache and how old that result is, how long we took, what it cost in credits, and the allowance you have left.

Status

When

Body

`200 OK`

The request succeeded.

Sync: the result, in this endpoint's format (see Response above). Async: a job token and the request's labels — { "token": "…", "status": "accepted", "labels": {} }.

`422 Unprocessable Entity`

The analysis failed, or a parameter was invalid (a bad max\_age, a screenshot\_options value out of range, labels that break the rules, or a report\_to we will not deliver to).

{ "error": "<message>" }

`429 Too Many Requests`

Three causes, told apart by the error field: concurrency\_limit (too many of your requests already running), rate\_limited (sending too fast), or quota\_exceeded (Free plan only — out of credits with no card on file to bill the extra to, and checked only on a cache miss; a paid plan keeps serving at the overage rate and is never refused for credits).

All three carry "error" and "message". Extra fields: concurrency\_limit → "limit", "running" · rate\_limited → "retry\_after" · quota\_exceeded → "limit", "used", "needed", "resets\_at".

`504 Gateway Timeout`

Sync only: the analysis didn't finish within 60s. It keeps running — fetch it via GET /result/:token.

{ "error": "processing\_timeout", "token": "…" }

`401 Unauthorized`

Missing or invalid API key.

{ "error": "invalid\_api\_key", "message": "…" }

Try it live — no API key needed

Run this endpoint against any URL right in your browser.

[Open tool](https://urlpipe.dev/tools/console-errors)

Source: https://urlpipe.dev/docs/console