simple-exiftool

exiftool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.

This npm package is a simple wrapper for exiftool, you can extract metadata / meta information from media files easily. Like; video duration, image resolution etc.

You can see complete list of supported media files from here including but not limited to jpg, png, gif, mp4, mov, 3gp, pdf.

• simple-exiftool requires Node v4+

Quick Installation

• OS X:

brew update
brew install exiftool
npm install simple-exiftool --save

• Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl
npm install simple-exiftool --save

• Other: Installing ExifTool.

Usage

const Exif = require("simple-exiftool");
Exif(source, [settings], callback);
 
// Default settings are
// {
// 		binary: "exiftool",
//		args: ["-json", "-n"]
// }
// 
// -json argument can not be overriden, since this module parse outputs of exiftool with JSON.parse
 

1. Passing single media file path

const Exif = require("simple-exiftool");
 
Exif("/x/y/image.jpg", (error, metadata) => {
    
    if (error) {
        // handle error
    }
    console.log(metadata);
});

2. Passing array of media files path

const Exif = require("simple-exiftool");
 
Exif(["/x/yimage.jpg", "/a/bmovie.mp4"], (error, metadataArray) => {
 
    if (error) {
        // handle error
    }
    console.log(metadataArray[0], metadataArray[1]);
});
 

3. Passing binary data

const Exif = require("simple-exiftool");
const Fs = require("fs");
 
Fs.readFile("/x/y/image.jpg", (error, binaryData) => {
 
    if (error) {
        // handle error
    }
 
    Exif(binaryData, (error, metada) => {
 
        if (error) {
            // handle error
        }
        console.log(metada);
    });
});
 

4. Exiftool binary path and extra arguments

const Exif = require("simple-exiftool");
 
Exif("/x/y/image.jpg", {binary: "exiftool2", args:["-json", "-s"]}, (error, metadataArray) => {
 
    if (error) {
        // handle error
    }
    console.log(metadataArray[0], metadataArray[1]);
});