React Video Thumbnail

Given a video url, attempt to generate a video thumbnail using HTML Canvas Element

Note*: The <Canvas> element will only be able to generate a thumbnail, if CORS allows it.

If not, you may see a similar console error as below:

DOMException: Failed to execute 'toDataURL' on 'HTMLCanvasElement': Tainted canvases may not be exported.

Please read about Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), if you would like more details on how it works.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/brothatru/react-video-thumbnail.git

OR

npm install --save-dev react-video-thumbnail

Usage

import VideoThumbnail from 'react-video-thumbnail'; // use npm published version
...
<VideoThumbnail
    videoUrl="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/7b21gtvsvicavoh/statue-of-admiral-yi-no-audio.mp4?dl=1"
    thumbnailHandler={(thumbnail) => console.log(thumbnail)}
    width={120}
    height={80}
    />

Properties

| Prop Name | Type | Default | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | videoUrl (Required) | string | | The url of the video you want to generate a thumbnail from | | cors | bool | false |Whether or not to set crossOrigin attribute to anonymous. | | height | int | | Resize thumbnail to specified height | | renderThumbnail | bool | true | Whether to render an image tag and show the thumbnail or not. | | snapshotAtTime | int | 2 | The second at which the component should snap the image at. | | thumbnailHandler | func | | Callback function that takes in thumbnail url as an argument | | width | int | | Resize thumbnail to specified width |

*Note: The longer the snapshotAtTime, the more video data it may have to download.

Examples

Contributors

• mike trieu @brothatru