multer-mux-storage

Uploading video to MUX using Multer with Express

Installation

npm install @vagnercardoso/multer-mux-storage

Usage

Using express with typescript:

import express from 'express';
import { MuxStorage } from '@vagnercardoso/multer-mux-storage';
import multer from 'multer';

const app = express();
const multerMuxStorage = multer({
  storage: new MuxStorage({
    tokenId: process.env.MUX_TOKEN_ID,
    tokenSecret: process.env.MUX_TOKEN_SECRET,
    allowedMimeTypes: ['video/mp4'],
  }),
});

app.post('/upload', multerMuxStorage.single('archive'), (request, response) => {
  return response.json(request.file);
});

app.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log(`app running on port 3000`);
});

MuxStorage constructor

Possible settings to pass to the class's constructor

{
    tokenId: string;
    tokenSecret: string;
    allowedMimeTypes: string[];
    getUploadOptions?: (
      request: Request,
      file: Express.Multer.File,
    ) => Promise<UploadOptions>;
}

Required options

• tokenId token provided by mux.com
• tokenSecret secret key provided by mux.com
• allowedMimeTypes receives an array of possible mimetypes to accept the upload

Optional options

• getUploadOptions async function that receives the request is the file per parameter to return the request parameters to create the upload in mux.

Data returned along with the multer in the interface Express.Multer.File

• muxUploadId id of the upload done on mux

To retrieve the id in your route, you must use request.file.muxUploadId

The id is for you to be able to retrieve the created assets and have all the information of your uploaded video.