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zencoder-promises
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A promise-based implementation of the Zencoder API in Node.js
Checkout the files in /test/ where each features are automatically demonstrated/tested.
$ npm install zencoder-promises
// module
var Zencoder = require('zencoder-promises');
// zencoder api key
var zencoder_api_key = 'YOUR_ZENCODER_API_KEY';
// instatiate a new module instance with key attached
var transcoder = new Zencoder(zencoder_api_key);
// job config
var job = {
"input": "s3://yourbucket/some/path/the-californians.mp4",
"outputs": [
{
"url": "s3://yourbucket/some/path/the-californians.mov",
"credentials": "s3"
}
]
};
// build promise
var transcodePromise = transcoder.createJob(job);
// and just like that ...
transcodePromise.then(function(jobInfo) {
console.log(jobInfo);
}, function(error) {
console.error(error);
});
Lines 19-30 of /lib/zencoder-promises.js need to be edited with your correct credentials and paths.
Next,
$ npm install
$ sudo npm install mocha -g
$ make test
This module is based on Ryan Faerman's implemenetation named node-zencoder
The project is a module produced by NuORDER
Copyright (c) 2013 NuORDER, Inc
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A promise-based implementation of the Zencoder API in Node.js
The npm package zencoder-promises receives a total of 133 weekly downloads. As such, zencoder-promises popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that zencoder-promises 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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