Write Screen Sharing Application for Your Own WebSite

Do you want to write multi-user screen sharing application for your own website?

Note: This tutorial uses WebRTC for multi-user screen sharing.

First step, download all codes from this directory: github/Chrome-Extensions/desktopCapture

Second step, modify manifest.json file line 17, and replace with either localhost or your real domain name:

{
    "content_scripts": [ {
       "js": [ "content-script.js" ],
       "all_frames": true,
       "run_at": "document_end",
       "matches": ["https://your-domain.com/*"]
    }]
}

Fourth step, either max a zip and deploy new chrome extension to Google App Store, or install directly using "chrome://extensions" page.

Fifth step, download ONE_to_MANY screen sharing demo from this page: RTCMultiConnection/demos/Screen-Sharing.html


Sixth step, modify a few lines in the above demo:

Search for these two lines:

<script src="/dist/RTCMultiConnection.min.js"></script>
<script src="/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>

Replace above two lines with:

<script src="https://rtcmulticonnection.herokuapp.com//dist/RTCMultiConnection.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://rtcmulticonnection.herokuapp.com//socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>

Now search for this line:

connection.socketURL = '/';

Replace above line with:

connection.socketURL = 'https://rtcmulticonnection.herokuapp.com:443/';

Now you are done.

Seventh and the last step, upload above HTML file on any HTTPs domain.

You can try on LocalHost as well.

Non-LocalHost domains requires HTTPs.

You can upload to Google Drive, DropBox or any free hosting website that supports HTTPs e.g. appspot.com.

How to test screen sharing?

First person shares his screen and about 10 people can join/see/view his screen.

You can open unlimited parallel rooms.

Maximum number of people who can view single screen is 14. We do not support more than 14 viewers/receivers.

There is a separate demo that allows us share screen over more than 14 users: https://rtcmulticonnection.herokuapp.com/demos/Scalable-Screen-Broadcast.html