Migrating to 1.0.0

All existing implementations of ReactPlayer should still work without any changes after migrating. The major changes are to how the component works internally. Keep an eye out for bugs and raise an issue if one doesn’t already exist.

Usage

npm install react-player --save
# or
yarn add react-player

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

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

Demo page: https://cookpete.com/react-player

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. 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:dist.

Polyfills

• If you are using npm and need to support browsers without Promise you will need a Promise polyfill.
• To support IE11 you will need to use babel-polyfill or a similar ES2015+ polyfill.

Props

Prop | Description | Default ---- | ----------- | ------- url | The url of a video or song to play playing | Set to true or false to pause or play the media | false loop | Set to true or false to loop the media | false controls | Set to true or false to display native player controlsNote: Vimeo, Twitch and Wistia player controls are not configurable and will always display | false volume | Sets the volume of the appropriate player | 0.8 muted | Mutes the player | false playbackRate | Sets the playback rate of the appropriate playerNote: Only supported by YouTube, Wistia, and file paths | 1 width | Sets the width of the player | 640px height | Sets the height of the player | 360px style | Add inline styles to the root element | {} progressInterval | The time between onProgress callbacks, in milliseconds | 1000 playsinline | Applies the playsinline attribute where supported | false wrapper | Element or component to use as the container element | div config | Override options for the various players, see config prop

Callback props

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

Prop | Description ---- | ----------- onReady | Called when media is loaded and ready to play. If playing is set to true, media will play immediately onStart | Called when media starts playing onPlay | Called when media starts or resumes playing after pausing or buffering onProgress | Callback containing played and loaded progress as a fraction, and playedSeconds and loadedSeconds in seconds  ◦  eg { played: 0.12, playedSeconds: 11.3, loaded: 0.34, loadedSeconds: 16.7 } onDuration | Callback containing duration of the media, in seconds onPause | Called when media is paused onBuffer | Called when media starts buffering onSeek | Called when media seeks with seconds parameter onEnded | Called when media finishes playing onError | Called when an error occurs whilst attempting to play media

Config prop

As of version 0.24, there is a single config prop to override the settings for the various players. If you are migrating from an earlier version, you must move all the old config props inside config:

<ReactPlayer
  url={url}
  config={{
    youtube: {
      playerVars: { showinfo: 1 }
    },
    facebook: {
      appId: '12345'
    }
  }}
/>

The old style config props still work but will produce a console warning:

<ReactPlayer
  url={url}
  youtubeConfig={{ playerVars: { showinfo: 1 } }}
  facebookConfig={{ appId: '12345' }}
/>

Settings for each player live under different keys:

Key | Options --- | ------- youtube | playerVars: Override the default player varspreload: Used for preloading facebook | appId: Your own Facebook app ID soundcloud | options: Override the default player optionspreload: Used for preloading vimeo | playerOptions: Override the default paramspreload: Used for preloading wistia | options: Override the default player options mixcloud | options: Override the default player options dailymotion | params: Override the default player varspreload: Used for preloading file | attributes: Apply element attributesforceAudio: Always render an <audio> elementforceHLS: Use hls.js for HLS streamsforceDASH: Always use dash.js for DASH streamshlsOptions: Override the default hls.js options

Preloading

When preload is set to true for players that support it, a short, silent video is played in the background when ReactPlayer first mounts. This fixes a bug where videos would not play when loaded in a background browser tab.

Methods

Static Methods

Method | Description ---- | ----------- ReactPlayer.canPlay(url) | Determine if a URL can be played. This does not detect media that is unplayable due to privacy settings, streaming permissions, etc. In that case, the onError prop will be invoked after attemping to play. Any URL that does not match any patterns will fall back to a native HTML5 media player.

Instance Methods

Use ref to call instance methods on the player. See the demo app for an example of this.

Method | Description ---- | ----------- seekTo(amount) | Seek to the given number of seconds, or fraction if amount is between 0 and 1 getCurrentTime() | Returns the number of seconds that has been played  ◦  Returns null if duration is unavailable getDuration() | Returns the duration (in seconds) of the currently playing media  ◦  Returns null if duration is unavailable getInternalPlayer() | Returns the internal player of whatever is currently playing  ◦  eg the YouTube player instance, or the <video> element when playing a video file  ◦  Use getInternalPlayer('hls') to get the hls.js player  ◦  Use getInternalPlayer('dash') to get the dash.js player  ◦  Returns null if the internal player is unavailable

Advanced Usage

Responsive player

Set width and height to 100% and wrap the player in a fixed aspect ratio box to get a responsive player:

class ResponsivePlayer extends Component {
  render () {
    return (
      <div className='player-wrapper'>
        <ReactPlayer
          className='react-player'
          url='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysz5S6PUM-U'
          width='100%'
          height='100%'
        />
      </div>
    )
  }
}

.player-wrapper {
  position: relative;
  padding-top: 56.25% /* Player ratio: 100 / (1280 / 720) */
}

.react-player {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
}

See jsFiddle example

Single player imports

If you are only ever playing a single type of URL, you can import individual players to keep your bundle size down:

import YouTubePlayer from 'react-player/lib/players/YouTube'

<YouTubePlayer
  url='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46Azg3Pm4c'
  playing
  controls
  // Other ReactPlayer props will work here
/>

See a list of available players here.

Standalone player

If you aren’t using React, you can still render a player using the standalone library:

<script src='https://cdn.rawgit.com/CookPete/react-player/standalone/dist/ReactPlayer.standalone.js'></script>
<script>
  const container = document.getElementById('container')
  const url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46Azg3Pm4c'

  renderReactPlayer(container, { url, playing: true })

  function pausePlayer () {
    renderReactPlayer(container, { url, playing: false })
  }
</script>

See jsFiddle example

Using 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>

Mobile considerations

Due to various restrictions, ReactPlayer is not guaranteed to function properly on mobile devices. The YouTube player documentation, for example, explains that certain mobile browsers require user interaction before playing:

The HTML5 <video> element, in certain mobile browsers (such as Chrome and Safari), only allows playback to take place if it’s initiated by a user interaction (such as tapping on the player).

Multiple Sources and Tracks

When playing file paths, an array of sources can be passed to the url prop to render multiple <source> tags.

<ReactPlayer playing url={['foo.webm', 'foo.ogg']} />

You can also specify a type for each source by using objects with src and type properties.

<ReactPlayer
  playing
  url={[
    {src: 'foo.webm', type: 'video/webm'},
    {src: 'foo.ogg', type: 'video/ogg'}
  ]}
/>

<track> elements for subtitles can be added using fileConfig:

<ReactPlayer
  playing
  url='foo.webm'
  config={{ file: {
    tracks: [
      {kind: 'subtitles', src: 'subs/subtitles.en.vtt', srcLang: 'en', default: true},
      {kind: 'subtitles', src: 'subs/subtitles.ja.vtt', srcLang: 'ja'},
      {kind: 'subtitles', src: 'subs/subtitles.de.vtt', srcLang: 'de'}
    ]
  }}}
/>

Supported media

• YouTube videos use the YouTube iFrame Player API
• Facebook videos use the Facebook Embedded Video Player API
• SoundCloud tracks use the SoundCloud Widget API
• Streamable videos use Player.js
• Vidme videos are no longer supported
• Vimeo videos use the Vimeo Player API
• Wistia videos use the Wistia Player API
• Twitch videos use the Twitch Interactive Frames API
• DailyMotion videos use the DailyMotion Player API
• Supported file types are playing using <video> or <audio> elements
  • HLS streams are played using hls.js
  • DASH streams are played using dash.js

Contributing

See the contribution guidelines before creating a pull request.

Thanks

• Many thanks to Kostya Luchankin for help overhauling the player inheritance patterns.
• Thanks to anyone who has contributed.