Tab Sharing using tabCapture APIs / Demo

Using the chrome.tabCapture API to interact with tab media streams.

Sharing realtime screenshots of the selected tab over many users using WebRTC peer-to-peer model.

=

Links

You can install chrome tab capturing extension from Google App Store:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-capturing-sharing/pcnepejfgcmidedoimegcafiabjnodhk

Source code of the chrome extension is available here:

https://github.com/muaz-khan/WebRTC-Experiment/tree/master/Chrome-Extensions/tabCapture

Official resource: tabCaputure documentation: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabCapture

=

How to capture stream using tabCapture APIs?

chrome.tabs.getSelected(null, function (tab) {
    var video_constraints = {
        mandatory: {
            chromeMediaSource: 'tab'
        }
    };
    var constraints = {
        audio: false,
        video: true,
        videoConstraints: video_constraints
    };
    chrome.tabCapture.capture(constraints, function (stream) {
        // it is a LocalMediaStream object!!
    });
});

=

Browser support

You can share tab, only from chrome.

Browser	Support
Firefox	Stable / Aurora / Nightly
Google Chrome	Stable / Canary / Beta / Dev
Opera	Stable / NEXT
Android	Chrome / Firefox / Opera

=

License

TabCapture Extension is released under MIT licence . Copyright (c) Muaz Khan.