---
title: Navigator.mediaDevices
slug: Web/API/Navigator/mediaDevices
translation_of: Web/API/Navigator/mediaDevices
---
<div>{{APIRef("Media Capture and Streams")}}</div>

<p>The <strong><code>Navigator.mediaDevices</code></strong> read-only property returns a {{domxref("MediaDevices")}} object, which provides access to connected media input devices like cameras and microphones, as well as screen sharing.</p>

<h2 id="Syntax">Syntax</h2>

<pre class="syntaxbox notranslate">var <em>mediaDevices</em> = navigator.mediaDevices;
</pre>

<h3 id="Return_value">Return value</h3>

<p>The {{domxref("MediaDevices")}} singleton object. Usually, you just use this object's members directly, such as by calling {{domxref("navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia()")}}.</p>

<h2 id="Specifications">Specifications</h2>

<table class="standard-table">
 <thead>
  <tr>
   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Status</th>
   <th scope="col">Comment</th>
  </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('Media Capture', '#mediadevices', 'NavigatorUserMedia.mediaDevices')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('Media Capture')}}</td>
   <td>Initial definition.</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>



<p>{{Compat("api.Navigator.mediaDevices")}}</p>

<h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>

<ul>
 <li><a href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Streams_API">Media Capture and Streams API</a>: The entry point to the documentation about the entire media stream API.</li>
 <li><a href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API"><font><font>API de WebRTC</font></font></a><font><font> : documentación sobre la API de WebRTC, que está estrechamente relacionada.</font></font></li>
</ul>