React Native Media Meta

Get media file metadata in your React Native app

Modifications from the orginal repo

Changes are only for Android

• Only audio metadata (video files ignored)
• Duration in seconds
• Chapters metadata for audio

Installation

$ npm install git+https://github.com/lokdevp/react-native-media-meta.git
$ react-native link

Usage

import MediaMeta from 'react-native-media-meta';
const path = '<your file path here>';

MediaMeta.get(path)
  .then(metadata => console.log(metadata))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

// for metadata with chapters
const metadataWithChapters = await MediaMeta.get(path, {
          getChapters: true,
});

API

MediaMeta.get(path) - Promise

Resolve: Object - included following keys (If it's found)

• thumb - Base64 image string (audio: get artwork if exist)
• duration
• width - the thumb width
• height - the thumb height
• Others:

[Android] We using FFmpegMediaMetadataRetriever, see RNMediaMeta.java#L36 for more information.
[iOS] We using official AVMatadataItem, see RNMediaMeta.m#L9 for more information.

License

MIT