puppeteer-screen-recorder

A puppeteer Plugin that uses the native chrome devtool protocol for capturing video frame by frame. Also supports an option to follow pages that are opened by the current page object. Check out API Docs.

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Key Feature

1. Follow Page Automatically

Automatically follows pages (multiple pages) which are opened at runtime, which will be part of video capturing. Also support options to disable the default flow.

2. No overhead over FF_MPEG library

FFMPEG library's installation and configuration are automatically managed by the library internally. Also offers options to configure with custom library path.

3. Native Implementation

This plugin works directly with native chrome devtool protocol to capture the video under the wood without any other thirdparty puppeteer plugins for screen capturing.

4. Adopted the Chromium principles

Adopted Chromium principles such as Speed, Security, Stability and Simplicity. It also ensures no frames are missed during video capturing and doesn't impact the performance, since its doesn't use any other puppeteer plugin internally.

5. Supports multiple video format and stream

Supports multiple video format like AVI, MP4, MOV and WEBM. Enable support for writable or duplex stream for process the output streaming .

Getting Started

Installation Guide

Using Npm

npm install puppeteer-screen-recorder

Using Yarn

yarn add puppeteer-screen-recorder

API Description

1. Import the plugin using ES6 or commonjs.

// ES6
import { PuppeteerScreenRecorder } from 'puppeteer-screen-recorder';

// or commonjs
const { PuppeteerScreenRecorder } = require('puppeteer-screen-recorder');

2. Setup the Configuration object.

const Config = {
  followNewTab: true,
  fps: 25,
  ffmpeg_Path: '