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react-video-thumbnail-image
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Given a video url, attempt to generate a video thumbnail image using HTML Canvas Element
Note*: The <Canvas>
element will only be able to generate a thumbnail image, if CORS allows it.
If not, you may see a similar console error as below:
DOMException: Failed to execute 'toDataURL' on 'HTMLCanvasElement': Canvas may not be exported.
Please read about Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), if you would like more details on how it works.
git clone https://github.com/saad3074/react-video-thumbnail-image.git
OR
npm install --save-dev react-video-thumbnail-image
import VideoImageThumbnail from 'react-video-thumbnail-image'; // use npm published version
...
<VideoImageThumbnail
videoUrl="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/pkz1yguv8vcs7k1/cover.mp4?dl=0"
thumbnailHandler={(thumbnail) => console.log(thumbnail)}
width={120}
height={80}
alt="my test video"
/>
Prop Name | Type | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|
videoUrl (Required) | string | The url of the video you want to generate a thumbnail from | |
cors | bool | false | Whether or not to set crossOrigin attribute to anonymous. |
height | int | Resize thumbnail to specified height | |
renderThumbnailHtml | bool | true | Whether to render an image tag and show the thumbnail or return base 64 image only. |
snapshotAtTime | int | 2 | The second at which the component should snap the image at. |
thumbnailHandler | func | Callback function that takes in thumbnail url as an argument | |
width | int | Resize thumbnail to specified width | |
alt | string | image alt text |
*Note: The longer the snapshotAtTime, the more video data it may have to download.
FAQs
Create a thumbnail image of video by providing any url.
The npm package react-video-thumbnail-image receives a total of 210 weekly downloads. As such, react-video-thumbnail-image popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that react-video-thumbnail-image demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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