> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.addpipe.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Standards Compliant Screen Capture in Chrome 70 With getDisplayMedia() (behind a flag) - URL: https://blog.addpipe.com/screen-capture-in-chrome-70-with-getdisplaymedia/ - Published: 2018-11-23T18:22:31.000Z - Updated: 2026-05-21T08:20:47.000Z - Author: Octavian - Tags: Technology, Screen Recording, getDisplayMedia, #Import 2026-05-22 13:18 **January 29th 2019 update: Chrome 72 was rolled out today with support for `navigator.MediaDevices.getDisplayMedia()` turned on by default. No need to change any flags. More details in the [Chrome 72 blog post](https://blog.addpipe.com/standards-compliant-screen-capture-in-chrome-72/).** After [Edge](https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/05/02/bringing-screen-capture-to-microsoft-edge-media-capture-api/), Chrome is the 2nd browser to add standards compliant screen capturing through `navigator.getDisplayMedia()`. Its introduction in Chrome 70 has been [announced back in August](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/discuss-webrtc/Uf0SrR4uxzk/uO8sLrWuEAAJ) and [further confirmed in October](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/discuss-webrtc/6ImvPjWQvbE/AlCtGQnYBQAJ) on the [discuss-webrtc](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/discuss-webrtc) Google group. The feature is currently under a flag so after upgrading to Chrome 70 you have to go to **chrome://flags** and enable *Experimental Web Platform* first. Once you do, head over to this [getDisplayMedia() demo](https://addpipe.com/get-display-media-demo/) and you’ll be able to record your screen in Chrome extension free. Screen capture in Chrome was possible previously but [only through a separate extension](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/10/screen-capture-in-google-chrome.html) that one had to publish in the Chrome Web Store and users had to download. We’ve developed [such an extension](https://github.com/addpipe/Pipe-Screen-Recording-Chrome-Extension) back in February when we’ve explored screen recording through the [Pipe recorder](https://addpipe.com/). Chrome 70 gives us a glimpse of the future. To get access to a media stream of the screen in Chrome 70 you can now just use a few lines of code: ```javascript navigator.getDisplayMedia({ video: true }).then( stream => { console.log("Awesome"); }, error => { console.log("Unable to acquire screen capture", error); }); ``` You can run the code above in the dev console and you’ll be prompted to choose what you want to share. `getDisplayMedia()` doesn’t take any media constraints but in Chrome the user gets to choose whether to capture their entire screen, an app or just a Chrome window: ![The Chrome screen capture dialog with options for the entire screen, an application window or a Chrome tab.](https://blog.addpipe.com/content/images/2018/11/screen-capture-dialog-for-getDisplayMedia-in-Chrome-1024x843.jpg) Once you get access to the screen stream you can just display it locally, share it with others in a WebRTC peer 2 peer call or you record it locally through the MediaStream Recorder API. Here’s how to display the captured screen/application/Chrome tab in a `