Streamlink¶

Overview¶

Streamlink is a command-line utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player, such as VLC or mpv. The main purpose of Streamlink is to avoid resource-heavy and unoptimized websites, while still allowing the user to enjoy various streamed content. There is also a Python API available for developers who want access to the stream data.

This project was forked from Livestreamer, which is no longer maintained.

Latest release (7.3.0): https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/releases/latest
GitHub: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
Issue tracker: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/issues
Discussion forum: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/discussions
Gitter/Matrix channel: streamlink/streamlink:gitter.im
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/streamlink/
Free software: Simplified BSD license

Features¶

Streamlink is built on top of a plugin system which allows support for new services to be added easily. Most of the popular streaming services are supported, such as Twitch, YouTube, and many more.

A list of all plugins currently included can be found on the plugins page.

Quickstart¶

The default behavior of Streamlink is to play back streams in the VLC player.

$ streamlink twitch.tv/day9tv best
[cli][info] Found matching plugin twitch for URL twitch.tv/day9tv
[cli][info] Available streams: audio_only, 160p (worst), 360p, 480p, 720p, 720p60, 1080p60 (best)
[cli][info] Opening stream: 1080p60 (hls)
[cli][info] Starting player: vlc

For more in-depth usage and install instructions, please refer to the User guide.

User guide¶

Streamlink is made up of two parts, a cli and a library API. See their respective sections for more information on how to use them.

Thank you¶

Github, for hosting the git repo, docs, release assets and providing CI tools
Whatismybrowser, for the access to their user-agents API in our CI workflows