ReactPlayer

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

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 controls Note: Vimeo player controls are not configurable and will always display	false
volume	Sets the volume of the appropriate player	0.8
width	Sets the width of the player	640
height	Sets the height of the player	360
className	Pass in a className to set on the top level element
progressFrequency	The time between onProgress callbacks, in milliseconds	1000

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 fraction eg { played: 0.12, loaded: 0.34 }
onDuration	Callback containing duration of the media, in seconds
onStart	Called when media starts playing
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.
fileConfig	Configuration object for the file player. Set attributes to apply element attributes.

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 are resolved and played in an <audio> element using the track’s stream_url
• Vimeo videos use the Vimeo Player API
• Supported file types are playing using <video> or <audio> elements

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.