Node.js Fluent-FFMPEG Example to Get Duration,Size,Codec & Metadata of File Using FFPROBE Library

Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be using the fluent-ffmpeg library to get duration,size and codec and metadata of video mp4 video in command line using node.js. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to make a new node.js project using the below command as shown below

npm init -y

npm i fluent-ffmpeg

And now we need to create the index.js file and copy paste the following code

index.js

const ffmpeg = require('fluent-ffmpeg')

let path = "video.mp4"

ffmpeg.ffprobe(path,(error,data) => {
    console.log(data)
})

const ffmpeg = require('fluent-ffmpeg')

let path = "video.mp4"

ffmpeg.ffprobe(path,(error,data) => {

console.log(data)

})

As you can see we are importing the fluent-ffmpeg library and then we are using the ffproble method to get the information about the video.mp4 file. Now in order to run this node.js app you need to execute the below command as shown below

nodemon index.js