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Can I Download a Session Replay?

Updated over a month ago

Issue

I'd like to download a Session Replay.

Applies To

  • All SaaS customers

  • Sentry Replay Users

Resolution

Currently it is not possible to download a video copy of a Replay.

To note, the playback in the UI itself is not a video but rather a recreation of the captured data from the SDK in an iFrame in the Sentry web app. You can actually pull up dev-tools and inspect the source etc. that is running in the iFrame as the playback runs.

You can read more about that here: https://docs.sentry.io/product/session-replay/#what-is-a-replay

A replay is not a video recording. It’s a video-like reproduction of a user session, built using the rrweb recording library. Replays are created from snapshots of your web application’s DOM state (the browser’s in-memory representation of HTML). A user session can span multiple page loads, including page refreshes.


There is also currently an open feature request for downloading replays that you can follow and add/comment to here.

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