RTCPeerConnection.getStreamById()

Experimental

This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

Obsolete

This feature is obsolete. Although it may still work in some browsers, its use is discouraged since it could be removed at any time. Try to avoid using it.

The RTCPeerConnection.getStreamById() method returns the MediaStream with the given id that is associated with local or remote end of the connection. If no stream matches, it returns null.

This property has been replaced with the RTCPeerConnection.getLocalStreams and RTCPeerConnection.getRemoteStreams properties. If you have code that uses stream, you will need to update, since browsers have begun to remove support for stream.

Syntax

var mediaStream = pc.getStream(id);

Parameters

id
Is a DOMString corresponding to the stream to return.

Example

var stream = pc.getStreamById(myTrackId);
if (stream) {
  console.log("Found stream: " + stream.id);
}

Polyfill

Running the following code before any other code will create RTCPeerConnection.prototype.getStreamById() if it's not natively available. 

// from: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=698163&desc=5#c10
RTCPeerConnection.prototype.getStreamById = function(id) {
  try {
    var localStreams = this.getLocalStreams();
    var remoteStreams = this.getRemoteStreams();
    var i;
    for (i = 0; i < localStreams.length; i++) {
     if (localStreams[i].id == id)
       return localStreams[i];
    }
    for (i = 0; i < remoteStreams.length; i++) {
     if (remoteStreams[i].id == id)
       return remoteStreams[i];
    }
  } catch(e) {}
  return null;
}

Browser compatibility

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See also