oct16/TimeCat

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

TimeCat is an open-source web page recording library that captures browser interactions (DOM, canvas, audio, mouse, scroll) and replays them losslessly like a video player, without generating actual video files. It ships as npm packages (recorder and player modules) plus a Chrome extension for one-click record and export.

Use cases

• record browser sessions and replay them like video
• capture user interactions on a web page losslessly
• export a web recording as a self-contained HTML file
• record canvas and WebGL activity in the browser
• add session replay to a web app
• record a webpage with audio narration
• replay recorded web sessions with fast-forward and seeking

When to choose

• you need lossless, DOM-based web session recording instead of screen-capture video
• you want small storage footprint for ultra-long recordings
• you need a player with seeking, speed control, and heat points
• you want a Chrome extension for quick one-click recording

When to avoid

• you need actual video files (mp4/webm) as output
• you need a stable, production-hardened API - the docs warn the API may change
• you need cross-browser support beyond modern Chromium/Firefox/Safari versions
• you need active maintenance - the last release was early 2023

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

video-processing audio-processing browser-extension gui web-development frontend developer-tools media browser web-recorder session-replay dom-recording virtual-dom player chrome-extension lossless-recording indexeddb web typescript javascript

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