p-exiftool

Wrapper around exiftool for reading metadata from many different file types.

• supports many different file types
• supports common media types like png, jpg, gif, mp4, etc.
• extracts metadata such as resolution, author, duration, etc.
• supports gif frame count and duration
• converts metadata keys to camel-case for consistency

Install

This module requires node >= 8.

Mac OS X

brew install exiftool

npm install --save p-exiftool

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl

npm install --save p-exiftool

See more details on installing exiftool.

Usage

const exiftool = require('p-exiftool')

const metadata = await exiftool('./media/bubbles.gif')
console.log(metadata)

{
  "fileName": "bubbles.gif",
  "fileSize": 2419689,
  "fileType": "GIF",
  "fileTypeExtension": "GIF",
  "mimeType": "image/gif",
  "gifVersion": "89a",
  "imageWidth": 360,
  "imageHeight": 360,
  "hasColorMap": 128,
  "colorResolutionDepth": 8,
  "bitsPerPixel": 8,
  "backgroundColor": 0,
  "animationIterations": 0,
  "frameCount": 28,
  "duration": 1.45,
  "imageSize": "360x360"
}

API

exiftool(...args)

Returns: Promise<Object> or Promise<Array<Object>>

You may pass multiple files to exiftool, in which case, a Promise for an array of results will be returned. If you only pass a single file, a single object will be returned.

args

Type: String Required

Path to one or more image files.

Note that you may also pass extra command-line flags to exiftool here as well. The default flags are -j -n.

Related

• exiftool - Underlying binary exiftool itself.
• node-exiftool - Alternate exiftool wrapper.
• simple-exiftool - Alternate exiftool wrapper.

License

MIT © Travis Fischer

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