# get-audio-duration

> Get the duration of an audio file

Latest version **4.0.1** (published 2023-07-14) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install get-audio-duration
pnpm add get-audio-duration
yarn add get-audio-duration
bun add get-audio-duration
```

## Health

**Score 35/100 (D)** — status: abandoned.

Positive: esm support; no vulnerabilities; high maintenance score.

Warnings: low downloads; no types.

Negative: abandoned.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.0.1 |
| Published | 2023-07-14 |
| First published | 2015-08-12 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | ESM + CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 2 |
| Unpacked size | 18.5 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 74 |
| Author | Lluís Ulzurrun de Asanza Sàez |
| Maintainers | lluis |
| Keywords | audio, duration, ffmpeg, ffprobe, typescript |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/get-audio-duration
- Repository: https://github.com/caffco/get-audio-duration
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/get-audio-duration

## Dependencies (2)

- [execa](https://npm.io/package/execa.md) ^5.0.0
- [@ffprobe-installer/ffprobe](https://npm.io/package/@ffprobe-installer/ffprobe.md) ^2.1.1

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## Recent versions

- 4.0.1 (latest) — 2023-07-14
- 4.0.1-beta.0 — 2023-06-29
- 4.0.0 — 2023-05-27
- 3.1.1 — 2022-10-12
- 3.1.0 — 2022-04-02
- 3.0.1 — 2022-03-13
- 3.0.0 — 2021-07-29
- 2.0.3 — 2020-07-28
- 2.0.3-beta.0 — 2020-07-28
- 2.0.2 — 2020-06-11
- 2.0.2-beta.0 — 2020-06-01
- 2.0.1 — 2020-05-30
- 2.0.0 — 2020-05-30
- 1.0.0 — 2018-12-16
- 0.0.1 — 2015-08-12

## README

# get-audio-duration

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Get the duration of audio files with `ffprobe`.

# Supported platforms

Currently this package only supports Linux, Windows 7+, and MacOS 10.9+. **This package does not work in the browser**, iOS or Android.

# Install

```bash
$ npm install --save get-audio-duration
```

# Usage

```js
const { getAudioDurationInSeconds } = require('get-audio-duration')

getAudioDurationInSeconds('audio.flac').then((duration) => {
  console.log(duration)
})

// If you need to customize the path to ffprobe...

getAudioDurationInSeconds('audio.flac', '/path/to/ffprobe').then((duration) => {
  console.log(duration)
})
```

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[license-url]: LICENSE
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[downloads-url]: https://npmjs.org/package/get-audio-duration

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