react-media-recorder

react-media-recorder :o2: :video_camera: :microphone: :computer:

react-media-recorder is a fully typed react component with render prop that can be used to record audio/video streams or the screens using MediaRecorder API.

Installation

npm i -S react-media-recorder

or

yarn add react-media-recorder

Usage

import { ReactMediaRecorder } from "react-media-recorder";

const RecordView = () => (
  <div>
    <ReactMediaRecorder
      video
      render={({ status, startRecording, stopRecording, mediaBlobUrl }) => (
        <div>
          <p>{status}</p>
          <button onClick={startRecording}>Start Recording</button>
          <button onClick={stopRecording}>Stop Recording</button>
          <video src={mediaBlobUrl} controls autoplay loop />
        </div>
      )}
    />
  </div>
);

Since react-media-recording uses render prop, you can define what to render in the view. Just don't forget to wire the startRecording, stopRecording and mediaBlobUrl to your component.

Options / Props

audio

Can be either a boolean value or a MediaTrackConstraints object.

type: boolean or object
default: true

blobPropertyBag

From MDN:
An optional BlobPropertyBag dictionary which may specify the following two attributes (for the mediaBlob):

• type, that represents the MIME type of the content of the array that will be put in the blob.
• endings, with a default value of "transparent", that specifies how strings containing the line ending character \n are to be written out. It is one of the two values: "native", meaning that line ending characters are changed to match host OS filesystem convention, or "transparent", meaning that endings are stored in the blob without change

type: object
default:
if video is enabled,

{
   type: "video/mp4"
}

if there's only audio is enabled,

{
  type: "audio/wav"
}

onStop

A function that would get invoked when the MediaRecorder stops. It'll provide the blob url as its param.

type: function(blobUrl: string)
default: () => null

render

A function which accepts an object containing fields: status, startRecording, stopRecording andmediaBlob. This function would return a react element/component.

type: function
default: () => null

screen

A boolean value. Lets you to record your current screen. Not all browsers would support this. Please check here for the availability. Please note that at the moment, the MediaRecorder won't record two alike streams at a time, if you provide both screen and video prop, the screen capturing will take precedence than the video capturing. But, you can provide the video prop (as the MediaTrackConstraints) which will then utilized by screen capture (for example, height, width etc..)

video

Can be either a boolean value or a MediaTrackConstraints object.

type: boolean or object
default: false

Props available in the render function

error

A string enum. Possible values:

• media_aborted
• permission_denied
• no_specified_media_found
• media_in_use
• invalid_media_constraints
• no_constraints
• recorder_error

status

A string enum. Possible values:

• media_aborted
• permission_denied
• no_specified_media_found
• media_in_use
• invalid_media_constraints
• no_constraints
• recorder_error
• idle
• acquiring_media
• recording
• stopping
• stopped

startRecording

A function, which starts recording when invoked.

pauseRecording

A function, which pauses the recording when invoked.

resumeRecording

A function, which resumes the recording when invoked.

stopRecording

A function, which stops recording when invoked.

muteAudio

A function, which mutes the audio tracks when invoked.

unmuteAudio

A function which unmutes the audio tracks when invoked.

mediaBlobUrl

A blob url that can be wired to an <audio />, <video /> or an <a /> element.

isMuted

A boolean prop that tells whether the audio is muted or not.

Contributing

Feel free to submit a PR if you found a bug (I might've missed many! :grinning:) or if you want to enhance it further.

Thanks!. Happy Recording!