AutomateTest workflowsWorking with files and mediaUpload video files and simulate the camera

Upload video files and simulate the camera

Important: This feature is currently a Private Beta service and available only under Desktop and Mobile Pro, and Enterprise Pro plans. For more details, check out our pricing page.

BrowserStack Automate enables you to upload video files to BrowserStack devices to verify various use cases, such as testing web apps and websites that require access to camera and video output, scanning QR code to your web app, testing the video recording feature, etc.

In this guide, you will learn:

Supported OS and browsers.
How to upload your video files.
How to inject the video file using the Automate capability.

Supported OS and browsers

Supported Platform	Supported Versions	Supported Browsers
Android	9 and above	Chrome 101 and above
iOS	12 and above	Safari 10 and above
Windows	7 and above	Chrome 101 and above Edge 101 and above
macOS	Any	Chrome 101 and above Edge 101 and above

Note:

Camera Video Injection feature is currently not supported on Oppo, Vivo, Huawei, Sony, and Samsung Galaxy M32 devices.
You can upload video files in the .mp4 format only, with maximum file size of 50 MB.

Upload your video files

Prior to starting the test execution, upload the video files using media REST APIs.

curl -u "username:accesskey" -X POST "https://api-cloud.browserstack.com/automate/upload-media" -F "file=@/path/to/app/file/test.mp4"

The REST API returns a response media_url for each successful file upload.

{
    "media_url" : "media://<hashedid>"
}

Note: This feature is currently a Private Beta service and available only under Desktop and Mobile Pro, and Enterprise Pro plans. For more details, check out our pricing page.

Inject the video file using the Automate capability

BrowserStack SDK
Legacy Integration

If you are using BrowserStack SDK, you can set the following capabilities in the browserstack.yml file:

Capability	Description
`cameraInjection`	Set this capability to `"true"` if you want to use your video files to emulate camera in the test.
`cameraInjectionUrl`	Add this capability with `media_url` of the video files to emulate camera in the test.

```yml
cameraInjection: true
cameraInjectionUrl: media://575927ad18ae787c065e680dc3ee864725cd809e
```
browserstack.yml

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    cameraInjection: true
cameraInjectionUrl: media://575927ad18ae787c065e680dc3ee864725cd809e

Capability	Description
`browserstack.cameraInjection`	Set this capability to `"true"` if you want to use your video files to emulate camera in the test.
`browserstack.cameraInjectionUrl`	Add this capability with `media_url` of the video files to emulate camera in the test.

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