@api.video/react-upload-button v0.0.2

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Table of contents

• Table of contents
• Project description
• Getting started
  • Retrieve your upload token
  • Installation
  • Basic usage
• Documentation
  • Props
    • children
    • uploadToken
    • style
    • onUploadProgress
    • onUploadSuccess
    • onUploadError

Project description

Customizable React button to upload to your api.video account.

Getting started

Retrieve your upload token

You'll need an upload token to use this component and upload to api.video. To get yours, follow these steps:

1. Log into your account or create one here.
2. Copy your API key (sandbox or production if you are subscribed to one of our plan).
3. Go to the official api.video documentation.
4. Log into your account in the top right corner. If it's already done, be sure it's the account you want to use.
5. Go to API reference -> Upload Tokens -> Generate an upload token
6. On the right, be sure the "Authentication" section contains the API key you want to use.
7. Generate your upload token by clicking the "Try It!" button in the right section
8. Copy the "token" value from the response in the right section.

Installation

npm install @api.video/react-upload-button
# or
yarn add @api.video/react-upload-button

Basic usage

import { UploadButton } from "@api.video/react-upload-button"

export default function MyComponent() {
  return <UploadButton uploadToken="YOUR_UPLOAD_TOKEN">Click Me</UploadButton>
}

Documentation

Props

children

A ReactNode children.

Example:

import { UploadButton } from "@api.video/react-upload-button"

export default function MyComponent() {
  return <UploadButton>Click Me</UploadButton>
}

uploadToken

Your upload token, mandatory to upload a video to your api.video account.

Example:

import { UploadButton } from "@api.video/react-upload-button"

export default function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <UploadButton 
      // ...
      uploadToken="YOUR_UPLOAD_TOKEN"
      // ...
    >
      Click Me
    </UploadButton>
  )
}

style

A React.CSSProperties object, used for component styling.

Example:

import { UploadButton } from "@api.video/react-upload-button"

export default function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <UploadButton 
      // ...
      style={{ color: 'blue', background: 'red', }}
      // ...
    >
      Click Me
    </UploadButton>
  )
}

onUploadProgress

Callback called during the uploading process. An UploadProgressEvent object is accessible from it:

• uploadedBytes (number): total number of bytes uploaded for this upload
• totalBytes (number): total size of the file
• chunksCount (number): number of upload chunks
• chunksBytes (number): size of a chunk
• currentChunk (number): index of the chunk being uploaded
• currentChunkUploadedBytes (number): number of bytes uploaded for the current chunk

Example:

import { UploadButton } from "@api.video/react-upload-button"

export default function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <UploadButton 
      // ...
      onUploadProgress={(progress) => console.log(progress.uploadedBytes)}
      // ...
    >
      Click Me
    </UploadButton>
  )
}

onUploadSuccess

Callback called after the upload process has been completed. A Video object is accessible from it. Check the official documentation.

Example:

import { UploadButton } from "@api.video/react-upload-button"

export default function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <UploadButton 
      // ...
      onUploadSuccess={(video) => console.log(video.videoId)}
      // ...
    >
      Click Me
    </UploadButton>
  )
}

onUploadError

Callback called in case of an error during the uploading process. A string error message is accessible from it.

Example:

import { UploadButton } from "@api.video/react-upload-button"

export default function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <UploadButton 
      // ...
      onUploadError={(errorMessage) => console.log(errorMessage)}
      // ...
    >
      Click Me
    </UploadButton>
  )
}