Awesome WebRTC

A curated list of awesome WebRTC modules and resources. Inspired by awesome-python.

• Awesome WebRTC
  • Overview
  • Demos and samples
  • Tutorials
  • Books
  • Developer tools and resources
  • Standards and protocols
  • Native APIs
  • Discussion, blogs and articles
  • Browser support
  • JavaScript apps and frameworks
    • Video chat
    • Peer-to-peer data
    • VoIP/PSTN
    • Face/head tracking
    • Node
  • Services
  • Applications
    • getUserMedia
    • Screen capture
    • Web Audio integration
    • Recording
    • Chat
    • Games
    • Telehealth
    • Phone
    • File sharing and P2P
    • Others
    • Alternatives for IE and Safari
  • Web Audio
    • Demos and samples
    • Tutorials
    • Reference

Overview

• WebRTC official site
• 2013 Google I/O presentation: video, slide - If you've never worked with WebRTC, we recommend you start with it. Get an overview of WebRTC.

Tutorials

• Getting Started With WebRTC
• WebRTC in the real world: STUN, TURN and signaling
• A practical guide to WebRTC - presentation slides from vLine
• Capturing audio and video in HTML5
• Excellent series of articles by Louis Stowasser and Robert Nyman
• Justin Uberti at Google I/O 2012
• Cullen Jennings video: HTML5 WebRTC
• WebRTC Fundamentals - online course.

Demos and samples

• WebRTC JavaScript code samples
• Live demos of the samples
• List of WebRTC demos and apps - incomplete and slightly out of date.
• WebRTC video chat: appr.tc, source
• Simple getUserMedia demo
• RTCPeerConnection demo - RTCPeerConnection ‘on one page’, i.e. without signaling.
• Simple RTCDataChannel example
• Data channel file transfer
• RTCPeerConnection signaling example
• Screen capture
• WebRTC Experiments - Muaz Khan maintains a mighty assortment of experiments.
• Walkthrough and code for setting up a server and client for video chat
• Google I/O 2014 file sharing codelab

Books

• WebRTCBook
• Getting Started with WebRTC
• Real-Time Communication with WebRTC

Developer tools and resources

• adapter.js - shim maintained by Google to cope with API changes and platform differences.
• WebRTC Troubleshooter: web, source
• getUserMedia.js - polyfill from Addy Osmani
• Chrome-Firefox
• File bugs

Standards and protocols

• Web Real-Time Communications Working Group
• W3C Working Draft: WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers
• Media Capture and Streams W3C Working Draft
• IETF RTCWEB - protocol specifications

Native APIs

• Getting started with WebRTC on iOS
• Introduction to WebRTC on Android
• Build scripts from pristineio - repo with links to how-to guides for Android and iOS
• Native API documentation
• WebRTC shim for WKWebView

Discussion, blogs and articles

• discuss-webrtc
• @webrtc
• +webrtc
• WebRTC on Stack Overflow
• Tsahi Levent-Levi
• WebRTC Weekly
• WebRTCHacks

Browser support

• iswebrtcreadyyet

JavaScript apps and frameworks

• webrtcHacks articles

Video chat

• appear.in
• SimpleWebRTC
• EasyRTC
• LyteSpark

Peer-to-peer data

• simple-peer - data channel abstraction.
• Sharefest - share files via data channels.
• Peer5 Downloader - P2P file download.
• ShareDrop: web, source - file sharing between devices on the same network.

VoIP/PSTN

• Phono - Open source JavaScript phone API
• sipML5 - Open source JavaScript SIP client
• JsSIP - Open source JavaScript SIP library
• Kamailio - Open source SIP proxy with WebSocket and SRTP support
• FreeSWITCH

Face/head tracking

• clmtrackr
• headtrackr: demo, source

Node

• rtc.io
• appear.in

Signaling

• signalhub - verstaile subpub signaling server
• simple-signal - complete signaling library for simple-peer
• turnserver - open source TURN implementation
• stunserver - open source STUN implementation

Services

• OpenTok - acquired by Telefonica Digital
• vLine
• WebRTC Developer Tool Vendor Directory

Applications

getUserMedia

• ASCII camera - getUserMedia + Canvas + ASCII conversion
• Xylophone
• Webcam Toy Photobooth app - Photobooth with filters, getUserMedia + WebGL
• SVG filters
• Face masking with WebGL
• Face deformation with WebGL
• Augmented Reality Photobooth

Screen capture

• Screen recording app

Web Audio integration

• Music production
• Chris Wilson's input demos
• Paul Lewis's gUM/WebGL demo
• RTCPeerConnection integration
• Theremin: getUserMedia + tracking + Web Audio
• cabbibo holly

Recording

• Record audio and video with the MediaRecorder API
• Voice Memos app
• Record and download without MediaRecorder
• RecordRTC
• media-recorder-stream

Chat

• talky.io
• appear.in
• tawk
• hu.tt
• Twelephone - chat with Twitter contacts.
• browsermeeting
• codassium - job interview tool with live coding.
• vmux.co
• vidtok
• voxeet - high quality audio.

Games

• Who Am I? - second ever WebRTC game, no longer online
• Cube Slam - WebRTC + Web Audio + WebGL
• Face tracking
• BananaBread - RTCDataChannel + WebGL

Telehealth

• Regional Cystic Fibrosis Program
• consultdirect

Phone

• Zingaya
• Tethr - Disaster communications

File sharing and P2P

• Sharefest - share file by uploading and sharing link.
• peerCDN - P2P CDN.
• WebTorrent - BitTorrent over WebRTC.
• webp2p
• peer5 - add P2P file download to your web page.
• pea-server - browser-based ftp server over WebRTC

Others

• Internet-less WebRTC
• Video call between Qt app and web app

Alternatives for IE and Safari

• Temasys Plugin

Web Audio

Demos and samples

• simple webaudio demo
• webaudio samples

Tutorials

• Getting started with the Web Audio API
• Audio input - with links to good, simple demos.
• webaudio api guide

Newsletters

• Web Audio Weekly

Reference

• webaudio api
• w3c webaudio

Related Lists

• awesome-peer-to-peer