chromecast-api is a javascript client library for googlecast's remote playback protocol to play any (compatible) content in the Chromecast device.
From npm:
npm install chromecast-api
var ChromecastAPI = require('chromecast-api')
var browser = new ChromecastAPI.Browser()
browser.on('deviceOn', function (device) {
var urlMedia = 'http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/big_buck_bunny_1080p.mp4';
device.play(urlMedia, 0, function () {
console.log('Playing in your chromecast')
setTimeout(function () {
//Pause the video
device.pause(function () {
console.log('Paused')
});
}, 30000)
setTimeout(function () {
//Stop video
device.stop(function () {
console.log('Stopped')
});
}, 40000)
setTimeout(function () {
//Close the streaming
device.close(function () {
console.log('Closed')
});
}, 50000)
})
})To include subtitles and a cover image, use an Object instead of a string in the play method:
var ChromecastAPI = require('chromecast-api')
var browser = new ChromecastAPI.Browser()
var media = {
url : 'http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/big_buck_bunny_1080p.mp4',
subtitles: [
{
language: 'en-US',
url: 'http://carlosguerrero.com/captions_styled.vtt',
name: 'English',
},
{
language: 'es-ES',
url: 'http://carlosguerrero.com/captions_styled_es.vtt',
name: 'Spanish',
}
],
cover: {
title: 'Big Bug Bunny',
url: 'http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/images/BigBuckBunny.jpg'
},
subtitles_style: {
backgroundColor: '#FFFFFFFF', // see http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-color/#hex-notation
foregroundColor: '#000FFFF', // see http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-color/#hex-notation
edgeType: 'DROP_SHADOW', // can be: "NONE", "OUTLINE", "DROP_SHADOW", "RAISED", "DEPRESSED"
edgeColor: '#AA00FFFF', // see http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-color/#hex-notation
fontScale: 1.5, // transforms into "font-size: " + (fontScale*100) +"%"
fontStyle: 'BOLD_ITALIC', // can be: "NORMAL", "BOLD", "BOLD_ITALIC", "ITALIC",
fontFamily: 'Droid Sans',
fontGenericFamily: 'CURSIVE', // can be: "SANS_SERIF", "MONOSPACED_SANS_SERIF", "SERIF", "MONOSPACED_SERIF", "CASUAL", "CURSIVE", "SMALL_CAPITALS",
windowColor: '#AA00FFFF', // see http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-color/#hex-notation
windowRoundedCornerRadius: 10, // radius in px
windowType: 'ROUNDED_CORNERS' // can be: "NONE", "NORMAL", "ROUNDED_CORNERS"
}
}
browser.on('deviceOn', function (device) {
// Starting to play Big Buck Bunny exactly in the first minute with example subtitles and cover
device.play(media, 60, function () {
console.log('Playing in your chromecast')
setTimeout(function () {
console.log('Subtitles off')
device.subtitlesOff (function(err,status) {
if(err) console.log("Error")
console.log("Subtitles removed")
});
}, 20000)
setTimeout(function () {
console.log('Subtitles on')
device.changeSubtitles(1, function (err, status) {
if(err) console.log("Error")
console.log("Subtitles restored")
});
}, 25000)
setTimeout(function () {
device.pause(function () {
console.log('Paused')
});
}, 30000)
setTimeout(function () {
device.unpause(function () {
console.log('Resumed')
});
}, 40000)
setTimeout(function () {
console.log('Change subtitles language')
device.changeSubtitles(0, function (err, status) {
if(err) console.log("Error")
console.log("English subtitles restored")
});
}, 45000)
setTimeout(function () {
console.log('Increase subtitles size')
device.changeSubtitlesSize(10, function (err, status) {
if(err) console.log("Error")
console.log("Subtitles size increased")
});
}, 50000)
setTimeout(function () {
device.seek(30,function () {
console.log('Seeked forward')
});
}, 60000)
setTimeout(function () {
console.log('Decrease subtitles size')
device.changeSubtitlesSize(1, function (err, status) {
if(err) console.log("Error")
console.log("Subtitles size decreased")
});
}, 70000)
})
}This is a fork from chromecast-js