ReactPlayer

A react component for playing media from YouTube, SoundCloud and Vimeo, as well as supported media files.

The component parses a URL and loads in the appropriate markup and external SDKs to play media from various sources. Props can be passed in to control playback and react to events such as buffering or media ending.

Usage

npm install react-player --save

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import ReactPlayer from 'react-player'

class App extends Component {
  render () {
    <ReactPlayer
      url='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysz5S6PUM-U'
      playing={true}
    />
  }
}

See the demo source for a full example.

For platforms like Meteor without direct use of npm modules, a minified version of ReactPlayer is located in dist after installing. To generate this file yourself, checkout the repo and run npm run build:browser

Bower

bower install react-player --save

  <script src='bower_components/react/react.js'></script>
  <script src='bower_components/react/react-dom.js'></script>
  <script src='bower_components/react-player/dist/ReactPlayer.js'></script>
  <script>
    ReactDOM.render(
      <ReactPlayer url='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46Azg3Pm4c' playing />,
      document.getElementById('container')
    )
  </script>

Demo

See a live demo, or run:

git clone https://github.com/CookPete/react-player.git
cd react-player
npm install
npm start
open http://localhost:3000

Props

Prop | Description ---- | ----------- url | The url of a video or song to play playing | Set to true or false to pause or play the media volume | Sets the volume of the appropriate player width | Sets the width of the player height | Sets the height of the player className | Pass in a className to set on the top level element

Callback props

Callback props take a function that gets fired on various player events

Prop | Description ---- | ----------- onProgress | Callback containing played and loaded progress as a fractioneg { played: 0.12, loaded: 0.34 } onDuration | Callback containing duration of the media, in seconds onPlay | Called when media starts or resumes playing after pausing or buffering onPause | Called when media is paused onBuffer | Called when media starts buffering onEnded | Called when media finishes playing onError | Called when an error occurs whilst attempting to play media

Config props

These props allow you to override the parameters for the various players

Prop | Description ---- | ----------- soundcloudConfig | Configuration object for the SoundCloud player. Set clientId, to your own SoundCloud app client ID vimeoConfig | Configuration object for the Vimeo player. Set iframeParams, to override the default params. Set preload for preloading youtubeConfig | Configuration object for the YouTube player. Set playerVars, to override the default player vars. Set preload for preloading

Preloading

Both youtubeConfig and vimeoConfig props can take a preload value. Setting this to true will play a short, silent video in the background when ReactPlayer first mounts. This fixes a bug where videos would not play when loaded in a background browser tab.

Methods

There is a static method ReactPlayer.canPlay(url) to determine if a URL can be played by the media player. Note that this does not detect media that is unplayable due to streaming permissions etc. In that case, onError will occur after attemping to play.

To seek to a certain part of the media, there is a seekTo(fraction) instance method that will seek to the appropriate place in the media. See App.js for an example of this using refs.

Supported Media

• YouTube videos use the YouTube iFrame Player API
• Soundcloud tracks use the Soundcloud JS SDK 2.0
• Vimeo videos use the Vimeo Player API
• MP4/WEBM/OGG/MP3/WAV files use the HTML media object

Linting

This project uses standard code style.

npm run lint

Testing

This project uses mocha with chai assertions for unit testing.

npm run test

Thanks

• gaearon for his react-transform-boilerplate, which this repo is roughly based on.
• Simon Smith for his intro to react testing with shallow rendering
• Fauntleroy for his contributions