The invention provides a detection method and a detection device for chlorine content in blast furnace gas. The detection method comprises the following steps of S1, acquiring the volume of to-be-detected blast furnace gas; S2, introducing the to-be-detected blast furnace gas into a first reaction solution and a second reaction solution in sequence, enabling the to-be-detected blast furnace gas tofully react with the first reaction solution, and filtering to obtain filtrate; and S3, detecting the mass of chloride ions in the filtrate by potentiometric titration, and calculating the chlorine content in the blast furnace gas, wherein the chlorine content is the concentration of chloride ions in unit volume of the blast furnace gas, and the calculation method is described as follows, in theformula, C is the chlorine content in the blast furnace gas, V is the volume of the to-be-detected blast furnace gas, and m is the mass of chlorine in the blast furnace gas with the volume V. By adopting multiple absorption, the chlorine in the blast furnace gas is completely absorbed, and hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide are completely converted into precipitates to eliminate interference on chlorine ion determination; the mass of chloride ions in the filtrate is measured by potentiometric titration, the operation is simple and rapid, and the result is accurate.