Overview

Headless page video recorder, you simply provide array of paths ,relative to the current working directory or a valid webpage URL and provide their starting and ending URI hash and get a video for each entry. Cropping, scaling, color-based overlaying values are optionals

watch sample output in portrait on mobile's fullscreen mode on youtube

Run via Docker/Compose

docker run \
    # Inject the JSON Config file (sample.json) into the container
	-v $(pwd)/sample.json:/usr/app/sample.json \
    # Map the output directory into a local volume
	-v $(pwd)/output:/usr/app/output \
    # Internet access might be required to load some webpages (HTTP/HTTPS urls)
	--network host \
    # my docker image, obviously
	yoga1290/h5recorder:0.0.48 \
    # a config file path to use, relative to the container's working directory (/usr/app/):
	sample.json

Docker Compose: See docker-compose.yml sample.

Install

NodeJS & NPM installed
npm i -g h5recorder for commandline tool, or npm i [-P|-D] h5recorder inside a node project

Run

First, you'll need to provide a JSON configuration in the following format: [{page, startHash, endHash, size{w, h}}] [JSON Schema]
- other supported configuration:

[{
  // a free port will be determined on runtime
	"page": "sub-directory/file.html",
	"startHash": "0",
	"endHash": "end",
	"size": {
		"w": 400,
		"h": 710
	},
	"overlay": [{ //optional
		"video": "overlay.mp4",
		"colorkey": "black", //default: green
		"similarity": 0.7, //optional
		"time": { //optional
			"start": 0,
			"end": 8
		},
		"crop": {
			"aspectRatio": 0.5625,
			"offset": { // optional
				"x": 0.3, // [0-1]
				"y": 0 // [0-1]
			}
		}
	}],
	"audio": [{ //optional; array
		"path": "PathToAudio/VideoFile",
		"start": 0, // time in sec
		"end": 10, // time in sec
		"volume": 0.5 // [0 - 1.0]
	}, { //optional; array
		"path": "PathToAudio/VideoFile2",
		"start": 10, // time in sec
		"end": 15, // time in sec
		"volume": 0.5 // [0 - 1.0]
	}]
}]

you can pass the configuration as a $CONFIG_FILE file to the commandline tool, after installing the package with the global -g flag; h5recorder $CONFIG_FILE
or, you can execute it inside another node module:

const h5recorder = require('h5recorder')
h5recorder([{
	"page": "sub-directory/file.html",
	"startHash": "0",
	"endHash": "end",
	"size": {
		"w": 400,
		"h": 710
}]).then((outputVideoFile) => {})

that's all, you'll get a single file after merging all entries.

Flow:

Inspiration

this was inspired by phanan's snippet, modified & wrapped to be more flexible; just meets my needs :P

🔔 Changelog

0.0.47

Docker Image (& Docker Compose)

0.0.30 - 0.0.43

AMerge, adjust volume, merge multiple audio streams and merge it with the final output file
JSON Schema validation fixed
10 sec time limit for page recording step if no endHash redirect.
Local express server will run only for relative local page.
JSDoc & gitlab-ci

0.0.30

fix ajv, validation schema & local phantom module path

yoga1290/H5Recorder