ReactPlayer

A react component for playing a variety of URLs, including file paths, YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud, Streamable, Vidme, Vimeo, Wistia and DailyMotion. Used by rplayr, an app to generate playlists from Reddit URLs.

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.

Polyfills

If you are using npm and need to support browsers without Promise you will need a Promise polyfill. To support Streamable or Vidme videos you will also need a fetch polyfill for browsers without fetch

Usage

npm install react-player --save

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 />
  }
}

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

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).

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 player controls are not configurable and will always display | false volume | Sets the volume of the appropriate player | 0.8 playbackRate | Sets the playback rate of the appropriate player | 1 width | Sets the width of the player | 640 height | Sets the height of the player | 360 style | Add inline styles to the root element progressFrequency | The time between onProgress callbacks, in milliseconds | 1000 playsinline | Applies the playsinline attribute where supported | false

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 progress played, loaded (fraction), playedSeconds and loadedSeconds (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 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.Set showArtwork to false to not load any artwork to display. 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. vidmeConfig | Configuration object for the Vidme player.Set format to use a certain quality of video, when available.Possible values: 240p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, dash, hls wistiaConfig | Configuration object for the Wistia player.Set options to override the default player options dailymotionConfig | Configuration object for the DailyMotion player.Set params to override the default player vars.Set preload for preloading. fileConfig | Configuration object for the file player.Set attributes to apply element attributes.Set forceAudio to always render an <audio> element.Set forceHLS to use hls.js for HLS streams.Set forceDASH to always use dash.js for DASH streams. facebookConfig | Configuration object for the Facebook player.Set appId to your own Facebook app ID.

Preloading

Both youtubeConfig, vimeoConfig, dailymotionConfig 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.

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'
  fileConfig={{
    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'}
    ]
  }}
/>

Methods

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

Prop | 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.

Supported media

• YouTube videos use the YouTube iFrame Player API
• Facebook videos use the Facebook Embedded Video Player API
• Soundcloud tracks are resolved and played in an <audio> element using the track’s stream_url
• Streamable videos are resolved and played in a <video> element using the track’s mp4 path
• Vidme videos are resolved and played in a <video> element using the track’s complete_url path
• Vimeo videos use the Vimeo Player API
• Wistia videos use the Wistia Player 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

• Anyone who has contributed
• gaearon for his react-transform-boilerplate, which this repo is roughly based on.