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ImageCapture: grabFrame() method

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The grabFrame() method of the ImageCapture interface takes a snapshot of the live video in a MediaStreamTrack and returns a Promise that resolves with a ImageBitmap containing the snapshot.

Syntax

js

grabFrame()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A Promise that resolves to an ImageBitmap object.

Examples

This example is extracted from this Simple Image Capture demo. It shows how to use the Promise returned by grabFrame() to copy the returned frame to a <canvas> element. For simplicity it does not show how to instantiate the ImageCapture object.

js

let grabFrameButton = document.querySelector("button#grabFrame");
let canvas = document.querySelector("canvas");

grabFrameButton.onclick = grabFrame;

function grabFrame() {
  imageCapture
    .grabFrame()
    .then((imageBitmap) => {
      console.log("Grabbed frame:", imageBitmap);
      canvas.width = imageBitmap.width;
      canvas.height = imageBitmap.height;
      canvas.getContext("2d").drawImage(imageBitmap, 0, 0);
      canvas.classList.remove("hidden");
    })
    .catch((error) => {
      console.error("grabFrame() error: ", error);
    });
}

Specifications

Specification
MediaStream Image Capture
# dom-imagecapture-grabframe

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
grabFrame 59 79 No No 46 No 59 59 No 43 No 7.0

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