After manual install: Something went wrong while loading “kap-cam”

[TurekBot]

See issue #2 for discussion.

macOS version: Ventura (13)
Kap version: 3.6.0

Something went wrong while loading “kap-cam”

Error: Cannot find module 'execa'
Require stack:
- /Users/bradleyturek/Code/kap-cam/index.js
- /Applications/Kap.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/dist-js/plugins/plugin.js
- /Applications/Kap.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/dist-js/plugins/index.js
- /Applications/Kap.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/dist-js/index.js
- 
    at Function.n._resolveFilename (electron/js2c/browser_init.js:257:1128)
    at Function.f._load (electron/js2c/asar_bundle.js:5:12913)
    at Object.<anonymous> (~/Code/kap-cam/index.js:4:15)

[calumk]

The issue is you need to run npm i after linking the package

[pavbyte]

https://youtu.be/R7CiiWRVdBw?si=rI94QCCylwaqoKGG

I made a video regarding how to fix the issue.

[suess-ecbm]

For future reference, the steps are:

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Kap/plugins/

npm remove kap-camera

git clone https://github.com/clearlysid/kap-cam

npm link ./kap-cam

sed -i '' 's/"dependencies": {/"dependencies": {\n    "kap-cam": "latest",/' package.json

npm link

After that restart Kap and record a video to test. You will have to allow camera and microphone access to Kap.

[thunfischbrot]

This fork works currently and includes the necessary installation steps in the README.

[bfelbo]

That fork repo sadly fails for me on npm link with npm ERR! Cannot destructure property 'name' of '.for' as it is undefined.

[daaain]

I needed to manually add in package.json in plugins:

{
	"dependencies": {
		"kap-cam": "latest"
	}
}

before npm i and then it showed up!