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puppeteer screen capture demo. Currently records 10 second video. Change the timeout in background.js with your own logic to stop the recording when necessary. Try with `node export.js`
/* global chrome, MediaRecorder, FileReader */
chrome.runtime.onConnect.addListener(port => {
let recorder = null
port.onMessage.addListener(msg => {
console.log(msg);
switch (msg.type) {
case 'REC_STOP':
console.log('Stopping recording')
if (!port.recorderPlaying || !recorder) {
console.log('Nothing to stop')
return
}
port.recorderPlaying = false
recorder.stop()
break
case 'REC_CLIENT_PLAY':
if (port.recorderPlaying) {
console.log('Ignoring second play, already playing')
return
}
port.recorderPlaying = true
const tab = port.sender.tab
tab.url = msg.data.url
chrome.desktopCapture.chooseDesktopMedia(['tab', 'audio'], streamId => {
// Get the stream
navigator.webkitGetUserMedia({
audio: false,
video: {
mandatory: {
chromeMediaSource: 'desktop',
chromeMediaSourceId: streamId,
minWidth: 1280,
maxWidth: 1280,
minHeight: 720,
maxHeight: 720,
minFrameRate: 60,
}
}
}, stream => {
var chunks=[];
recorder = new MediaRecorder(stream, {
videoBitsPerSecond: 2500000,
ignoreMutedMedia: true,
mimeType: 'video/webm'
});
recorder.ondataavailable = function (event) {
if (event.data.size > 0) {
chunks.push(event.data);
}
};
recorder.onstop = function () {
var superBuffer = new Blob(chunks, {
type: 'video/webm'
});
var url = URL.createObjectURL(superBuffer);
// var a = document.createElement('a');
// document.body.appendChild(a);
// a.style = 'display: none';
// a.href = url;
// a.download = 'test.webm';
// a.click();
chrome.downloads.download({
url: url,
//filename: "suggested/filename/with/relative.path" // Optional
});
}
recorder.start();
setTimeout(()=>{
recorder.stop()
}, 10000)
}, error => console.log('Unable to get user media', error))
})
break
default:
console.log('Unrecognized message', msg)
}
})
})
window.onload = () => {
if (window.recorderInjected) return
Object.defineProperty(window, 'recorderInjected', { value: true, writable: false })
// Setup message passing
const port = chrome.runtime.connect(chrome.runtime.id)
port.onMessage.addListener(msg => window.postMessage(msg, '*'))
window.addEventListener('message', event => {
// Relay client messages
if (event.source === window && event.data.type && event.data.type.startsWith('REC_CLIENT_')) {
port.postMessage(event.data)
}
})
document.title = 'pickme'
window.postMessage({ type: 'REC_CLIENT_PLAY', data: { url: window.location.origin } }, '*')
}
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
console.log(__dirname)
var options = {
headless: false,
args: [
'--enable-usermedia-screen-capturing',
'--allow-http-screen-capture',
'--no-sandbox',
'--auto-select-desktop-capture-source=pickme',
'--disable-setuid-sandbox',
'--load-extension=' + __dirname,,
'--disable-extensions-except=' + __dirname,
],
executablePath: 'google-chrome-unstable',
}
puppeteer.launch(options).then(browser=>{
return browser.pages().then(pages=>{
var page = pages[0];
return page.goto('http://tobiasahlin.com/spinkit/', {waitUntil: 'networkidle2'}).then(_=>{
return page.evaluate(()=>{
var session = {
audio: false,
video: {
mandatory: {
chromeMediaSource: 'screen',
},
optional: []
},
};
})
})
}).then(_=>{
// return browser.close()
})
})
{
"name": "Video Capture Attempt #1",
"version": "0.1.0",
"manifest_version": 2,
"background": {
"scripts": ["background.js"]
},
"content_scripts": [{
"matches": ["<all_urls>"],
"js": ["content_script.js"],
"run_at": "document_start"
}],
"permissions": [
"desktopCapture",
"<all_urls>",
"downloads"
]
}
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I did a package for it: https://www.npmjs.com/package/puppeteer-stream

It works however i cant use a custom Page from maybe puppeteer-core

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