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rrweb canvas webrtc plugin

Plugin that live streams contents of canvas elements via webrtc

Example of live streaming via yarn live-stream

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4106/186701616-fd71a107-5d53-423c-ba09-0395a3a0252f.mov

Instructions

Record side

js
// Record side

import { record } from '@rrweb/record';
import { RRWebPluginCanvasWebRTCRecord } from '@rrweb/rrweb-plugin-canvas-webrtc-record';

const webRTCRecordPlugin = new RRWebPluginCanvasWebRTCRecord({
  signalSendCallback: (msg) => {
    // provides webrtc sdp offer signal & connect message
    // make sure you send this to the replayer's `webRTCReplayPlugin.signalReceive(signal)`
    sendSignalToReplayer(msg); // example of function that sends the signal to the replayer
  },
});

record({
  emit: (event) => {
    // send these events to the `replayer.addEvent(event)`, how you do that is up to you
    // you can send them to a server for example which can then send them to the replayer
    sendEventToReplayer(event); // example of function that sends the event to the replayer
  },
  plugins: [
    // add the plugin to the list of plugins, and initialize it via `.initPlugin()`
    webRTCRecordPlugin.initPlugin(),
  ],
  recordCanvas: false, // we don't want canvas recording turned on, we're going to do that via the plugin
});

Replay Side

js
// Replay side
import { Replayer } from '@rrweb/replay';
import { RRWebPluginCanvasWebRTCReplay } from '@rrweb/rrweb-plugin-canvas-webrtc-replay';

const webRTCReplayPlugin = new RRWebPluginCanvasWebRTCReplay({
  canvasFoundCallback(canvas, context) {
    console.log('canvas', canvas);
    // send the canvas id to `webRTCRecordPlugin.setupStream(id)`, how you do that is up to you
    // you can send them to a server for example which can then send them to the replayer
    sendCanvasIdToRecordScript(context.id); // example of function that sends the id to the record script
  },
  signalSendCallback(signal) {
    // provides webrtc sdp offer signal & connect message
    // make sure you send this to the record script's `webRTCRecordPlugin.signalReceive(signal)`
    sendSignalToRecordScript(signal); // example of function that sends the signal to the record script
  },
});

const replayer = new Replayer([], {
  UNSAFE_replayCanvas: true, // turn canvas replay on!
  liveMode: true, // live mode is needed to stream events to the replayer
  plugins: [webRTCReplayPlugin.initPlugin()],
});
replayer.startLive(); // start the replayer in live mode

replayer.addEvent(event); // call this whenever an event is received from the record script

Enabling canvas replay adds allow-scripts to the replay iframe and opts out of rrweb's sandbox script-execution protection. Only use UNSAFE_replayCanvas for replay data whose risk you accept.

More info

https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb/pull/976

Edit README on GitHub

Release Notes for rrweb canvas webrtc plugin

2.1.0—2.1.1

No changes to this package through these releases, version incremented to keep in sync with other packages

2.0.1

Patch Changes

  • Updated dependencies [5f52d63]:
    • rrweb@2.0.1

2.0.0

Major Changes

  • #1497 2606a2a Thanks @Juice10! - Split plugins out of rrweb and move them into their own packages: @rrweb/packer, @rrweb/rrweb-plugin-canvas-webrtc-record, @rrweb/rrweb-plugin-canvas-webrtc-replay, @rrweb/rrweb-plugin-sequential-id-record, @rrweb/rrweb-plugin-sequential-id-replay, @rrweb/rrweb-plugin-console-record, @rrweb/rrweb-plugin-console-replay. Check out the README of each package for more information or check out https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb/pull/1033 to see the changes.

  • #1497 2606a2a Thanks @Juice10! - Distributed files have new filenames, paths and extensions. Important: If you reference distributed files or types directly, you might have to update your paths/filenames. E.g. you import from rrweb/typings/... or rrdom/es. However you run import rrweb from 'rrweb' you won't notice a difference with this change. If you include rrweb files directly in a script tag, you might have to update that path to include a the .umd.cjs files instead. All .js files now use ES modules which can be used in modern browsers, node.js and bundlers that support ES modules. All npm packages now also ship .cjs and .umd.cjs files. The .umd.cjs files are CommonJS modules that bundle all files together to make it easy to ship one file to browser environments (similar to the previous .js files). The .cjs files are CommonJS modules that can be used in older Node.js environments. Types should be better defined in package.json and if you need specific types they might be exported from new packages (for example PlayerMachineState and SpeedMachineState are now exported from @rrweb/replay). Check the package.json's main and exports field for the available files.

Patch Changes

2.0.0-alpha.20

Patch Changes

  • Updated dependencies [6388fb5]:
    • rrweb@2.0.0-alpha.20

2.0.0-alpha.19

Patch Changes

2.0.0-alpha.18

Patch Changes

  • #1593 5a78938 Thanks @daibhin! - NodeType enum was moved from rrweb-snapshot to @rrweb/types The following types where moved from rrweb-snapshot to @rrweb/types: documentNode, documentTypeNode, legacyAttributes, textNode, cdataNode, commentNode, elementNode, serializedNode, serializedNodeWithId, serializedElementNodeWithId, serializedTextNodeWithId, IMirror, INode, mediaAttributes, attributes and DataURLOptions
  • Updated dependencies [04ee6ed, 5fbb904, 5a78938, 53b83bb]:
    • rrweb@2.0.0-alpha.18

2.0.0-alpha.17

Patch Changes

2.0.0-alpha.15

Major Changes

  • #1497 2606a2a Thanks @Juice10! - Split plugins out of rrweb and move them into their own packages: @rrweb/packer, @rrweb/rrweb-plugin-canvas-webrtc-record, @rrweb/rrweb-plugin-canvas-webrtc-replay, @rrweb/rrweb-plugin-sequential-id-record, @rrweb/rrweb-plugin-sequential-id-replay, @rrweb/rrweb-plugin-console-record, @rrweb/rrweb-plugin-console-replay. Check out the README of each package for more information or check out https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb/pull/1033 to see the changes.

  • #1497 2606a2a Thanks @Juice10! - Distributed files have new filenames, paths and extensions. Important: If you reference distributed files or types directly, you might have to update your paths/filenames. E.g. you import from rrweb/typings/... or rrdom/es. However you run import rrweb from 'rrweb' you won't notice a difference with this change. If you include rrweb files directly in a script tag, you might have to update that path to include a the .umd.cjs files instead. All .js files now use ES modules which can be used in modern browsers, node.js and bundlers that support ES modules. All npm packages now also ship .cjs and .umd.cjs files. The .umd.cjs files are CommonJS modules that bundle all files together to make it easy to ship one file to browser environments (similar to the previous .js files). The .cjs files are CommonJS modules that can be used in older Node.js environments. Types should be better defined in package.json and if you need specific types they might be exported from new packages (for example PlayerMachineState and SpeedMachineState are now exported from @rrweb/replay). Check the package.json's main and exports field for the available files.

Patch Changes