THEOplayer React Native NPAW Connector

An NPAW (formerly YOUBORA) analytics connector for @theoplayer/react-native.

This connector is JavaScript-only and works across iOS, Android and web through the unified react-native-theoplayer player, using only the npaw-plugin-react-native plugin — no native iOS/Android modules are required.

Note: This connector targets NPAW v7+ (it depends on npaw-plugin-react-native ^7.3.x).

Installation

npm install @theoplayer/react-native-analytics-npaw

Usage

Configuring the connector

Create the connector with the useNpaw hook, passing a config object and initializing it once the THEOplayer instance is ready:

import { LogLevel, useNpaw } from '@theoplayer/react-native-analytics-npaw';

const App = () => {
  const [npaw, initNpaw] = useNpaw({
    accountCode: 'your-account-code',
    analytics: {
      'content.title': 'Big Buck Bunny',
      'content.isLive': false,
      // Free-form custom metadata shown in the NPAW "Metadata" panel:
      'content.metadata': { genre: 'animation' },
    },
    // Optional NpawPlugin options (host, sessionRecovery, ...):
    plugin: { sessionRecovery: 'auto' },
    logLevel: LogLevel.DEBUG,
  });

  const onPlayerReady = (player: THEOplayer) => {
    initNpaw(player);
  };

  return <THEOplayerView config={playerConfig} onPlayerReady={onPlayerReady} />;
};

Alternatively, construct the NpawConnector class directly:

import { NpawConnector } from '@theoplayer/react-native-analytics-npaw';

const connector = new NpawConnector(player, { accountCode: 'your-account-code' });

Configuration

Field	Description
accountCode	Your NPAW account code. Required.
analytics	Per-video analytics options, e.g. content.title, content.isLive, content.metadata, user.name, ...
plugin	NpawPlugin options such as host, sessionRecovery and balancerAnalyticsEnabled.
logLevel	Initial LogLevel.

What is tracked automatically

Once initialized, the connector registers a video adapter (and an ads adapter) against the player and reports playback automatically:

• Playback events (start, join, pause/resume, buffering, seeking, end and errors) mapped from the unified PlayerEventType events.
• Playhead, duration and live/VOD state, resource, rendition and bitrate.
• The active subtitle/caption track language (getSubtitles) and audio language (getVideoLanguage).
• Ads: ad breaks, ad start/join/stop, quartiles, skip, click and errors, with ad position (pre/mid/post), duration and skippability.

Updating options at runtime

// Update options for the current video (e.g. late-arriving metadata):
npaw.current?.setVideoOptions({ 'content.title': 'New Title' });

// Update global analytics options:
npaw.current?.setAnalyticsOptions({ 'user.name': 'viewer-1' });

// Change the log level:
npaw.current?.setLogLevel(LogLevel.SILENT);

// Stop analytics and close all sessions:
npaw.current?.destroy();

See the NPAW integration documentation for the full set of plugin and analytics options.