Desktop App for HAR Viewer

[metachris]

Hello,

Have you thought about building a HAR Viewer Desktop App? I think you just throw the current code into an Electron shell and with a few minor changes have a cross-platform desktop app for free.

I'm sure a lot of people would like it - especially since sometimes the HAR files contain private APIs.

I've built a number of Electron apps and can probably give you some feedback/input and/or help with the implementation.

Cheers from Vienna,
Chris

[gitgrimbo]

Hi Chris,

Yes it's something I've thought about but never had the time to experiment with unfortunately.

In terms of 'private APIs', I'm guessing you mean private data in HAR files? Dragging and dropping HARs onto HAR Viewer is a client-only process, and the data is not exposed.

[metachris]

Ah, I didn't realize that the data is not sent to the server. Thanks for clearing that up.

I would say packaging this into an Electron app would take about 10 to 20 hours, with some customizations (eg. Menubar). Let me know if you are interested in working on that.

[LuisPeregrina]

I would say this would be beneficial due to many companies using VMs without access to the internet due to GDPR.