MediaDevices: getUserMedia() method

Publisher

MDN Web Docs (Mozilla and contributors)

URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevices/getUserMedia

Published

2025-11-30

Updated

unknown

Accessed

2026-09-30

HTTP status

200

License

CC BY-SA 2.5 (MDN prose content); attribution and share-alike required; short excerpts and locators only in this corpus

Source notes citing this source

• MDN documents that getUserMedia rejects with NotAllowedError when the page is not in a secure context, when the user has denied access for the site, the session or globally, or when Permissions Policy does not allow the input source. in context
• MDN documents that getUserMedia rejects with NotFoundError when no media track of the requested type satisfies the constraints, and with NotReadableError when permission was granted but a hardware error at the operating system, browser or page level prevented access to the device. in context

Cite this source record

APA

WarmTransfer. (2025, November 30). MediaDevices: getUserMedia() method. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/mdn-mediadevices-getusermedia

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-mdn-mediadevices-getusermedia,
  title  = {MediaDevices: getUserMedia() method},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2025},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/mdn-mediadevices-getusermedia},
  note   = {MDN Web Docs (Mozilla and contributors), accessed 2026-09-30}
}