OBS: Adding Browser Sources To Your Scenes

OBS browser sources are used for a plethora of things. From sound alerts and pop-ups, they are used to bring all kinds of things into your streaming software. But how do you set them up?

Quick Links:

Add An OBS Browser Source:
Set Up Your Source:
Combine Your Knowledge:

Add An OBS Browser Source:

In the scenes dock of OBS, you can right-click to bring up a menu, or click the “+” button at the bottom of the dock.

Navigate your way to the “Browser” option to add it as a source. This will bring up a new pop-up to name your browser source.

OBS add sources menu with all the possible sources you can add

Set Up Your Source:

There are a few settings in the “Properties” menu for a browser source but let’s just highlight the important ones for now.

URL: This is where you paste the url for the thing you want to feature in OBS.

Control Audio Via OBS: You generally want to tick this for any sources with audio so that you can manage them while live from OBS.

Shutdown source when not visible: this is a good way to save processing speed. Generally this is for browser sources only on one scene.

Refresh browser when scene becomes active: This uses some processing power but not enough to cause issues. It simply refreshes your source in OBS to make sure it is up to date.

OBS Browser Source screen shot showing the different settings you can use

Combine Your Knowledge:

If you’ve been following our tutorials, then you will already have a good idea of different ways to use browser sources, but here are some bonus things to consider.

You can add filters to browser sources
You can control a browser source using Streamer.bot
You can group and organise browser sources
You can put a browser source in a nested scene.

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