flowplayer-drive
NPM module and CLI tool for managing videos on Flowplayer Drive
Installation
npm install flowplayer-drive
If you want to use it as a command line tool use the global switch (might need sudo depending on your environment).
npm install -g flowplayer-drive
Usage
Node library
var drive = require('flowplayer-drive');
drive.login('john.doe@gmail.com', 's3cr3t').then(function(user) {
console.log('Logged in as ' + user.email);
return drive.uploadVideo(user.authcode, '/path/to/file.mp4'), { title: 'My cool video' });
}).catch(function(err) {
console.error('Something went wrong', err);
});
Methods
login(user, pass)
- Calls the login endpoint, returns user information along with an authentication token docuploadVideo(authcode, file, params)
- Uploads a file to Drive docvideos(authcode)
- List all videos doc
Command line tool
Examples:
Upload a video file
flowplayer upload videos/my-video.mp4
Upload all MP4 files from a directory
flowplayer upload videos/*.mp4
List videos from Drive API as JSON
flowplayer list
Commands
flowplayer
- prints the usage informationflowplayer login
- prompts for login credentials and caches them for later useflowplayer upload <file1> [<file2> <file3>]
- Upload one ore more videos to the serviceflowplayer list
- List all videos
Tip: combine the command line tool with jq to process and analyze data:
$ flowplayer list | jq -c 'sort_by(.viewCount) | reverse | .[] | {title: .title, viewCount: .viewCount}'
{"title":"Hero_video.mpeg","viewCount":67982}
{"title":"2013-05-25 10.29.08.mp4","viewCount":184}
...