Title: wp_read_video_metadata
Published: November 20, 2017
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘wp_read_video_metadata’, array $metadata, string $file, string|null $file_format, array $data )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_read_video_metadata/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_read_video_metadata/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_read_video_metadata/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_read_video_metadata/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_read_video_metadata/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters the array of metadata retrieved from a video.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_read_video_metadata/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

In core, usually this selection is what is stored.
More complete data can be parsed
from the `$data` parameter.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_read_video_metadata/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$metadata`array

Filtered video metadata.

`$file`string

Path to video file.

`$file_format`string|null

File format of video, as analyzed by getID3.
 Null if unknown.

`$data`array

Raw metadata from getID3.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_read_video_metadata/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    return apply_filters( 'wp_read_video_metadata', $metadata, $file, $file_format, $data );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/media.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-admin/includes/media.php#L3694)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-admin/includes/media.php#L3694-L3694)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_read_video_metadata/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [wp_read_video_metadata()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_read_video_metadata/)`wp-admin/includes/media.php` |

Retrieves metadata from a video file’s ID3 tags.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_read_video_metadata/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.9.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.9.0/) | Introduced. |

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