Warning!

JSCapture won't work in Chrome 37+ due to removal of the experimental desktop sharing API.

JSCapture

JSCapture is screen capturing library implemented with pure JavaScript and HTML5.

It allows you to make screenshots and record a video of your desktop from your browser.

How to use

JSCapture uses getUserMedia for screen capturing. Currently the API for screen capturing is supported only by Google Chrome, Canary and Chromium by enabling an experimental flag.

In order to enable the flag:

• Go to chrome://flags/#enable-usermedia-screen-capture
• Enable - "Enable screen capture support in getUserMedia()"
• Restart your browser.

Note that you MUST use https in order to be allowed to do screen recording. Since there are some very expensive operations happening when each frame is being captured the video won't be useful when you're capturing a high resolution. In order to handle this issue use the scale property.

API

• JSCapture.capture(config) - Captures a new screenshot.
  • config.x - (Number) default value 0. Specifies the left offset.
  • config.y - (Number) default value 0. Specifies the top offset.
  • config.width - (Number) default value the screen width. Specifies the width of the screenshot.
  • config.height - (Number) default value the screen height. Specifies the height of the screenshot.
  • config.process - (Function|Array) default value an empty array. A list of filters, which are going to process the image.
  • config.done - (Function) default value is undefined. Callback, which is being called with the captured image.
  • config.fail - (Function) default value is undefined. A callback, which is being executed on unsuccessful screen capturing (for example if the user does not allow screen capturing).
  • config.delay - (Number) default value 0. Specifies the delay after each the screenshot will be captured.
• JSCapture.record(config) - Capture a video.
  • config.x - (Number) default value 0. Specifies the left offset.
  • config.y - (Number) default value 0. Specifies the top offset.
  • config.width - (Number) default value the screen width. Specifies the width of the video.
  • config.height - (Number) default value the screen height. Specifies the height of the video.
  • config.process - (Function|Array) default value an empty array. A list of filters, which are going to process the individual frames.
  • config.done - (Function) default value is undefined. Callback, which is being called with the captured video.
  • config.delay - (Number) default value 0. Specifies the delay after each the video will be captured.
  • config.frameRate - (Number) default value 60 frames per second. Specifies the number of frames per second.
  • config.done - (Function) default value is undefined. A callback, which accepts the video (as a Blob), result of the screen recording, as an argument
  • config.fail - (Function) default value is undefined. A callback, which is being executed on unsuccessful screen recording (for example if the user does not allow screen capturing).
  • config.duration - (Number) default is Infinity. A number which indicates the length of the video.
• JSCapture.stopRecording(fn) - Stops the video recording.
  • fn - (Function) default value is undefined. A callback, which accepts the video (as a Blob), result of the screen recording, as an argument. Note that the callback provided in config.done won't be invoked if JSCapture.stopRecording(fn) is called.
• JSCapture.isRecording() - (Boolean) Returns whether the screen recording have been started.

Demo

Here

Contributors

mgechev	jbrooksuk	themgt	hemanth

License

This software is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.