# jhuckaby/webcamjs

HTML5 Webcam Image Capture Library with Flash Fallback

Repository: https://github.com/jhuckaby/webcamjs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/webcamjs
Language: ActionScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: webcamjs, camera, html5-getusermedia, actionscript, data-uri
Last push: 2020-04-22T07:50:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4566, "days_push": 2324, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2511, forks 1099 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:57.446331+00:00)

## What it is
WebcamJS is a JavaScript library for capturing images from a user's webcam in the browser using HTML5 getUserMedia, with a Flash fallback for older browsers. It outputs captured photos as data URIs and is now in maintenance mode with only critical bug fixes.

## Use cases
- capture webcam photos in the browser
- take user profile pictures from camera
- snapshot from getUserMedia without Flash
- fallback webcam capture for legacy browsers
- embed a webcam widget in a web form
- grab camera images as data URIs for upload

## When to choose
- you need simple browser-based webcam snapshots with legacy Flash fallback
- you want a lightweight, dependency-free camera capture library
- you must support very old browsers without getUserMedia

## When to avoid
- you need active development, new features, or PRs
- you need mobile camera support or real-time canvas effects
- starting a new project - consider modern getUserMedia wrappers or JpegCamera

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, browser-extensions
- platform: browser
- tags: webcam, getusermedia, flash-fallback, html5, camera-capture, data-uri, javascript

## Member repositories
- jhuckaby/webcamjs (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:57.446331+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:26:23.109818+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jhuckaby/webcamjs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:57.446331+00:00, sha 2504abe4ca3a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.