# Web Audio Inspector

> Adds a Web Audio panel to Developer Tools. This panel visualizes the web audio graph in real-time and lets users inspect nodes.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/web-audio-inspector](https://chrome-stats.com/d/web-audio-inspector)

## Overview

- **ID:** `web-audio-inspector`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Metroite
- **Category:** web-development,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 66
- **Version:** 0.1.4
- **Last updated:** 2020-08-06
- **First published:** 2020-08-06
- **Size:** 441 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/web-audio-inspector/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/google/audion/issues](https://github.com/google/audion/issues)

## Description

**Web Audio Inspector** is a powerful Chrome extension that integrates seamlessly into Developer Tools, providing a dedicated panel for real-time visualization of web audio graphs. It enables developers to pan and zoom through the audio graph with intuitive mouse controls and inspect properties of individual AudioNodes simply by clicking on them. 

Additionally, users can obtain references to specific AudioNodes directly in the console using the `__node__` method, enhancing debugging and development workflows. This tool is ideal for web developers and audio engineers seeking detailed insights into web audio processing. The project is open source under the Apache License Version 2.0 and actively maintained on GitHub.

## Rankings

- #14,134 — Overall
- #56 — audio
- #81 — graph
- #86 — udio
- #131 — insert
- #162 — disclaimer

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/web-audio-inspector)