PostHog Session Replay is a user-recording feature that captures visitor interactions (clicks, mouse movements, scrolls, form inputs, and DOM changes) so teams can replay real user sessions to reproduce bugs, understand workflows, and improve UX. Making Session Replay portable focuses on easy export, lightweight embedding, privacy-preserving portability, and compatibility across environments.
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.
PostHog’s portability also extends to infrastructure. Because it is open-source, teams with strict compliance needs can self-host the platform, ensuring session data never leaves their private cloud. Deep-Dive Features for Developers posthog session replay portable
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While PostHog doesn't offer a specific product named "Session Replay Portable," you can achieve data portability through its robust export and API features. This allows you to "carry" your session data across platforms or preserve it beyond standard retention limits . Making Your Session Replays "Portable" PostHog Session Replay — Portable Overview PostHog Session
PostHog allows you to export raw session replay events directly to Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift. Unlike other tools that give you aggregated CSV exports, PostHog streams the raw clickmap, mouse activity, and console logs into your warehouse.
How to do it: Navigate to a specific recording, click the "More Options" menu in the top right, and select Export to JSON. This will allow you to capture and replay
Data Pipelines: PostHog allows you to export events to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake. While this doesn't export a "video file," it secures the underlying data that powers the replay.
Portability also means moving data out for deletion or audit. PostHog includes: