Official documentation
Audio recording and screen capture (Chrome extensions)
Chrome for Developers, 2026
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- Google's developer guide to recording audio and video from a browser tab with Chrome extensions. It explains the tabCapture API, the user-gesture requirement and background recording with an offscreen document.
- How much weight it carries
- Official Google documentation for developers, current on the date checked. It describes what an extension can do, not what any finished app does, and it says nothing about consent or meeting platforms.
Facts taken from this source
- Google's developer guide says that from Chrome 116, an extension can call the tabCapture API in a service worker to obtain a stream ID after a user gesture, and pass it to an offscreen document that records the tab.
“Starting in Chrome 116, you can call the browser.tabCapture API in a service worker to obtain a stream ID following user gesture.” (Record audio and video in the background)