Can I share a screen with a headless browser via WebRTC?

[Steven Noble]

I want to run a headless browser (PhantomJS preferred) on the server within my Rails app.

I will probably control the headless browser with CasperJS or a similar convenience library.

I want so share that browser's session with a web page in my app that users access through an iFrame in another web page in my app.

So far example:

# If a user clicked on a button in that iFrame, then the headless browser would click on the corresponding button in its browsing session.

# If the page updated within the headless browser's session, then the page within the iFrame would update in the same way.

I'm assuming the way to do this is via a screen sharing library built upon WebRTC.

But before I dig too far into this potential rabbit warren, can I ask: is something like this even possible?

Thanks,

Steven

[Christoffer Jansson]

I believe screen sharing leverages OS APIs in the "Window manager/framework" of the OS via browser APIs accessible using extensions. Not sure if native WebRTC can do screen sharing by itself (it ofc has codec params/settings tuned for screen sharing). 

Interestingly enough, phantomJs has some form of screen capture (screenshots only it seems), http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html.

+Erik Språng do you know more about native WebRTC screen sharing capabilities?

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[Philip Andrew]

Hi, did you find a solution? The best I can work out is to make a Chrome extension, but not headless.