Retrieving values from OBS

[mccombey]

I've been successfully controlling OBS using obs-websocket-js and it works fantastically well. However, I have no idea how to retrieve values from OBS using code. I've looked everywhere and there are no examples of syntax. Functions like GetTextGDIPlusProperties are there, but how do I use them?

This is how I'm currently using the obs-websocket-js to send commands...

const obs = new OBSWebSocket();
	obs.connect({
		address: "localhost:4444"
	});

obs.send("SetCurrentScene", {
      "scene-name": "titles"		
});	

Any help would be most appreciated!

[t2t2]

.send function calls return a Promise that resolve when obs-websocket answers to the request. Therefore the data can be accessed by

.then on promise chain:

// SetCurrentScene returns an empty object on resolve, so while you can use the callback to know when scene has been set, Get works as a better example:
obs.send("GetCurrentScene").then((data) => {
	console.log(data.name); // Current scene name
});

Alternatively there's also async/await syntax:

// Generally should be in a async function like
// async function checkCurrentScene() {
const data = await obs.send("GetCurrentScene");

console.log(data.name); // Current scene name