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I'm building a site that will handle a lot of media files, both image and video. Currently, I have video and image content types setup along with the ability to bulk-upload them.

I'm wondering if there is a way to scrape details from an uploaded video—such as duration, type, etc and store these in fields. I'm not sure how to approach this.

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Presumably we are talking mp4/webm video here? Start with checking out getID3. Then it is pretty simple to do:

$id3 = new getID3;
$file = $id3->analyze($filename);

Must always have "new getID3".

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  • Thank you! Could you tell me how I'd use this to pull info from a video on upload to populate some fields in a content item?
    – Vecta
    Commented Oct 27, 2015 at 19:19
  • Depending on the type of video you want to import. For example with YouTube you can use Feeds: YouTube Parser. The simplest option is probably to write a custom module to populate the fields on node_form_submit().
    – macjules
    Commented Nov 2, 2015 at 14:23

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