bashtech / livestreamer

CLI program that pipes streams from various streaming services (Twitch, UStream etc) into a video player of your choice.

Livestreamer

Livestreamer is CLI program that extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice.

• Documentation: http://livestreamer.tanuki.se/
• Discussions: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/livestreamer
• GitHub: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer
• PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/livestreamer
• Free software: Simplified BSD license

Features

Livestreamer is built upon a plugin system which allows support for new services to be easily added.

Currently most of the big streaming services are supported, e.g. Dailymotion, Livestream, Justin.tv, Twitch, UStream and YouTube Live.

Usage

The default behaviour of Livestreamer is to feed a stream to your player software (default is VLC).

# pip install livestreamer
$ livestreamer twitch.tv/day9tv best
[cli][info] Found matching plugin twitch for URL twitch.tv/day9tv
[cli][info] Opening stream: source
[cli][info] Starting player: vlc

For more in-depth usage and install instructions see the full documentation available at http://livestreamer.tanuki.se/.

Related software

Feel free to add any Livestreamer related things to the wiki.

Contributing

If you wish to report a bug or contribute code, please take a look at CONTRIBUTING.rst first.