Livestreamer is command-line utility that extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice.
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Livestreamer is a command-line utility_ that pipes video streams
from various services into a video player, such as VLC <http://videolan.org/>.
The main purpose of Livestreamer is to allow the user to avoid buggy and CPU
heavy flash plugins but still be able to enjoy various streamed content.
There is also an API available for developers who want access
to the video stream data.
.. _command-line utility: http://docs.livestreamer.io/cli.html .. _API: http://docs.livestreamer.io/api_guide.html
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, such as:
Dailymotion <http://dailymotion.com/live>_Livestream <http://livestream.com>_Twitch <http://twitch.tv>_UStream <http://ustream.tv>_YouTube Live <http://youtube.com>_... and many more. A full list of plugins currently included can be found
on the Plugins_ page.
.. _Plugins: http://docs.livestreamer.io/plugin_matrix.html
The default behaviour of Livestreamer is to playback a stream in the default
player (VLC <http://videolan.org/>_).
.. sourcecode:: console
# 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 User guide_.
.. _User guide: http://docs.livestreamer.io/index.html#user-guide
Feel free to add any Livestreamer related things to
the wiki <https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/wiki/>_.
If you wish to report a bug or contribute code, please take a look
at CONTRIBUTING.rst <CONTRIBUTING.rst>_ first.
FAQs
Livestreamer is command-line utility that extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice.
We found that livestreamer demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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