# API Network Recorder

> Capture authorized API requests and responses for debugging, documentation, and API analysis.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/api-network-recorder](https://chrome-stats.com/d/api-network-recorder)

## Overview

- **ID:** `api-network-recorder`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Fernando
- **Category:** web-development
- **Daily users:** 18
- **Weekly downloads:** 3
- **Version:** 0.2.5
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-22
- **First published:** 2026-05-14
- **Size:** 106 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/api-network-recorder/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/jlozoya/api-network-recorder/issues](https://github.com/jlozoya/api-network-recorder/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/api-network-recorder/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/api-network-recorder/privacy/)

## Description

API Network Recorder is a developer tool for capturing, inspecting, filtering, and exporting API/network traffic directly from Firefox.

Use it to debug API integrations, inspect request and response data, document observed endpoints, and generate exportable API references from real browser traffic.

Features:
<ul><li>Capture API-like network requests from web pages.</li><li>Inspect request URLs, HTTP methods, status codes, request headers, request bodies, response headers, and response metadata.</li><li>Filter captured records by search text, HTTP method, status group, source, host, and API-only mode.</li><li>Group captured traffic by endpoint.</li><li>Export captured records as JSON.</li><li>Export grouped endpoints as Markdown documentation.</li><li>Export an OpenAPI draft based on observed traffic.</li><li>Pause and continue live updates in the inspector.</li><li>Store captured records locally in the browser.</li></ul>
Firefox uses silent network capture through webRequest. Response bodies may be unavailable when the browser does not expose them through standard extension APIs.

Captured data is stored locally in the browser and is not uploaded to an external server by this extension.

## Rankings

- #25,926 — Overall
- #20 — network
- #47 — video recorder
- #71 — record
- #114 — response
- #147 — documentation

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `webRequestFilterResponse`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/api-network-recorder)