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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

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.

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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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ImageCapture/grabFrame