chrome-capture-for-channels

Capture video and audio from a Chrome tab using the chrome.tabCapture API. Built on Puppeteer and puppeteer-stream

setup

download the latest release for macOS or Windows

or run in docker:

docker run -d --name chrome-capture -p 5589:5589 fancybits/chrome-capture-for-channels

usage

a http server is listening on port 5589 and responds to these routes. the response is a webm stream with h264 video and opus audio.

• /stream/<name> for stream names registered in the code
• /stream?url=<url> for other arbitrary URLs

setup a new Custom Channel using:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="weatherscan",Weatherscan
chrome://x.x.x.x:5589/stream?url=https://weatherscan.net

development

to setup a development environment where you can edit and run main.js:

windows

winget install -e --id Git.Git
winget install -e --id OpenJS.NodeJS

git clone https://github.com/fancybits/chrome-capture-for-channels
cd chrome-capture-for-channels
npm install
node main.js

mac

brew install nodejs git

git clone https://github.com/fancybits/chrome-capture-for-channels
cd chrome-capture-for-channels
npm install
node main.js