Static ffprobe (from the ffmpeg project) binaries for macOS, Linux, Windows.
Supports macOS (64-bit and arm64), Linux (32 and 64-bit, armhf, arm64), Windows (32 and 64-bit). The ffmpeg version currently used is 6.0
.
Note: The version of ffprobe-static
follows SemVer. When releasing new versions, we do not consider breaking changes in ffprobe
itself, but only the JS interface (see below). For example, ffprobe-static@4.5.0
might download ffprobe 5.0
. To prevent an ffprobe-static
upgrade downloading backwards-incompatible ffprobe versions, use a strict version range for it or use a lockfile.
$ npm install ffprobe-static
Note: During installation, it will download the appropriate ffprobe
binary from the b6.0
GitHub release. Use and distribution of the binary releases of ffprobe
are covered by their respective license.
By default, the ffprobe
binary will get downloaded from https://github.com/eugeneware/ffprobe-static/releases/download
. To customise this, e.g. when using a mirror, set the FFPROBE_BINARIES_URL
environment variable.
export FFPROBE_BINARIES_URL=https://cdn.npmmirror.com/binaries/ffprobe-static
npm install ffprobe-static
Because ffprobe-static
will download a binary specific to the OS/platform, you need to purge node_modules
before (re-)packaging your app for a different OS/platform (read more in #35).
Returns the path of a statically linked ffprobe binary on the local filesystem.
const pathToFfprobe = require('ffprobe-static');
console.log(pathToFfprobe)
// /Users/j/playground/node_modules/ffprobe-static/ffprobe
Check the example script for a more thorough example.
The binaries downloaded by ffprobe-static
are from these locations:
- Windows x64 builds
- Windows x86 builds
- Linux x64/x86/ARM/ARM64 builds
- macOS x64 (Intel) & ARM64 (Apple Silicon) builds
This npm package includes statically linked binaries that are produced by the following individuals. Please consider supporting and donating to them who have been providing quality binary builds for many years:
- Linux builds: John Van Sickle
- macOS builds: Helmut K. C. Tessarek