Posthog Session Replay Portable

I'll help you develop a portable PostHog session replay feature. This will allow you to capture and replay user sessions independently of the PostHog cloud service.

Playback considerations

• Reconstruct DOM snapshots in order and apply event stream to animate user actions.
• Offer controls: play/pause, speed, jump-to-timestamp, event filtering (clicks, inputs).
• Support degraded mode: if assets missing, fall back to DOM-only rendering; show warnings for incomplete packages.

Since PostHog is open-source, you can run the entire platform on your own infrastructure using Docker Compose. This "portable" infrastructure approach ensures full data sovereignty and is often used by teams with strict privacy requirements. Core Replay Capabilities Whether used in the cloud or self-hosted, PostHog captures: Session recordings API Reference - PostHog posthog session replay portable

• Export replay metadata (session ID, user, duration, timestamps) to CSV or JSON.
• Fetch raw replay events (clicks, scrolls, inputs) for custom analytics pipelines.
• Connect to BigQuery, Snowflake, or S3 using their export integrations.

const startRecording = () => recorderRef.current?.start(options?.userId); setIsRecording(true); ; I'll help you develop a portable PostHog session