ilovevideoeditor

Official CLI for iLoveVideoEditor — render videos from VideoJSON specs in your terminal or CI

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ilovevideoeditor

Official CLI for iLoveVideoEditor — render videos from VideoJSON specs in your terminal or CI/CD pipeline.

export ILOVEVIDEOEDITOR_API_KEY=vf_live_...
npx ilovevideoeditor render video.json -o out.mp4

Install

npm install -g ilovevideoeditor
# or run without installing
npx ilovevideoeditor --help

Requires Node.js 18+. Get an API key from the dashboard.

Commands

Command	Description
`render <spec.json>`	Queue a render and wait for the MP4
`status <job-id>`	Check render status
`estimate <spec.json>`	Estimate credit cost before rendering
`templates`	List the 249+ public templates

Flags

Flag	Description
`-o, --output <file>`	Download the rendered video to a file
`--no-wait`	Queue and exit immediately (returns the job ID)
`--json`	Machine-readable JSON output (for CI)
`--search <query>`	Filter templates by name/id
`--api-key <key>`	API key (env: `ILOVEVIDEOEDITOR_API_KEY`)
`--api-base <url>`	API base URL override (env: `ILOVEVIDEOEDITOR_API_BASE`)

Examples

Render and download:

ilovevideoeditor render video.json -o promo.mp4

Fire-and-forget (queue only, JSON output for CI):

ilovevideoeditor render video.json --no-wait --json
# {
#   "jobId": "425ba18a-dab0-4827-afc9-eec80e5b3c20",
#   "status": "queued"
# }

Check status later:

ilovevideoeditor status 425ba18a-dab0-4827-afc9-eec80e5b3c20 --json

Estimate cost before spending credits:

ilovevideoeditor estimate video.json
# cost: 0.04 credits
# duration: 2s
# resolution: 640x360 @ 30fps

GitHub Action

Render videos in CI/CD with the official action:

- uses: ilovevideoeditor/render-video-action@v1
  with:
    api-key: ${{ secrets.ILOVEVIDEOEDITOR_API_KEY }}
    spec: video.json
    output: promo.mp4

See ilovevideoeditor/render-video-action.

VideoJSON

A VideoJSON spec describes the scene: layers, text, images, animations, and timing. Generate one with the fluent API:

import ILoveVideoEditor from '@ilovevideoeditor/core';

const $ = new ILoveVideoEditor({ name: 'Promo', width: 1920, height: 1080, fps: 30 });
$.addText({ text: 'Hello', fontSize: 12, color: '#fff' });
$.wait('3s');
console.log(JSON.stringify(await $.compile()));