Plugin sideloading#
Streamlink will attempt to load standalone plugins from these directories:
Platform |
Location |
---|---|
Linux, BSD |
Deprecated:
|
macOS |
Deprecated:
|
Windows |
|
Note
If a plugin is added with the same name as a built-in plugin, then the added plugin will take precedence. This is useful if you want to upgrade plugins independently of the Streamlink version.
Warning
If one of the sideloaded plugins fails to load, eg. due to a
SyntaxError
being raised by the parser, this exception will
not get caught by Streamlink and the execution will stop, even if
the input stream URL does not match the faulty plugin.