electron/docs/api/crash-reporter.md
Tom Moor cb3e758bc6 Fixed and clarified crash-reporter documentation
It was unclear to us until we looked through the atom source code that crashReporter.start must be ran in each renderer process
2015-07-03 11:34:36 -07:00

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# crash-reporter
An example of automatically submitting crash reporters to a remote server:
```javascript
crashReporter = require('crash-reporter');
crashReporter.start({
productName: 'YourName',
companyName: 'YourCompany',
submitUrl: 'https://your-domain.com/url-to-submit',
autoSubmit: true
});
```
## crashReporter.start(options)
* `options` Object
* `productName` String, default: Electron
* `companyName` String, default: GitHub, Inc
* `submitUrl` String, default: http://54.249.141.255:1127/post
* URL that crash reports would be sent to as POST
* `autoSubmit` Boolean, default: true
* Send the crash report without user interaction
* `ignoreSystemCrashHandler` Boolean, default: false
* `extra` Object
* An object you can define which content will be send along with the report.
* Only string properties are sent correctly.
* Nested objects are not supported.
Developers are required to call this method before using other crashReporter APIs.
**Note:** On OS X, electron uses a new `crashpad` client, which is different
with the `breakpad` on Windows and Linux. To enable crash collection feature,
you are required to call `crashReporter.start` API to initialize `crashpad` in
main process and in each renderer process that you wish to collect crash reports.
## crashReporter.getLastCrashReport()
Returns the date and ID of the last crash report, when there was no crash report
sent or the crash reporter is not started, `null` will be returned.
## crashReporter.getUploadedReports()
Returns all uploaded crash reports, each report contains date and uploaded ID.
# crash-reporter payload
The crash reporter will send the following data to the `submitUrl` as `POST`:
* `rept` String - e.g. 'electron-crash-service'
* `ver` String - The version of Electron
* `platform` String - e.g. 'win32'
* `process_type` String - e.g. 'renderer'
* `ptime` Number
* `_version` String - The version in `package.json`
* `_productName` String - The product name in the crashReporter `options` object
* `prod` String - Name of the underlying product. In this case Electron
* `_companyName` String - The company name in the crashReporter `options` object
* `upload_file_minidump` File - The crashreport as file
* All level one properties of the `extra` object in the crashReporter `options` object