Livepeer Python Library

The Livepeer Python library provides convenient access to the Livepeer Studio API from applications written in Python

Documentation

For full documentation and examples, please visit docs.livepeer.org.

SDK Installation

The SDK can be installed with either pip or poetry package managers.

PIP

PIP is the default package installer for Python, enabling easy installation and management of packages from PyPI via the command line.

pip install livepeer

Poetry

Poetry is a modern tool that simplifies dependency management and package publishing by using a single pyproject.toml file to handle project metadata and dependencies.

poetry add livepeer

SDK Example Usage

Example

import livepeer
from livepeer.models import components

s = livepeer.Livepeer(
    api_key="<YOUR_BEARER_TOKEN_HERE>",
)

req = components.NewStreamPayload(
    name='test_stream',
)

res = s.stream.create(req)

if res.stream is not None:
    # handle response
    pass

Available Resources and Operations

Available methods

access_control

• create - Create a signing key
• get_all - Retrieves signing keys
• delete - Delete Signing Key
• get - Retrieves a signing key
• update - Update a signing key

asset

• get_all - Retrieve assets
• create - Upload an asset
• create_via_url - Upload asset via URL
• get - Retrieves an asset
• update - Patch an asset
• delete - Delete an asset

generate

• text_to_image - Text To Image
• image_to_image - Image To Image
• image_to_video - Image To Video
• upscale - Upscale
• audio_to_text - Audio To Text
• segment_anything2 - Segment Anything 2

metrics

• get_realtime_viewership - Query realtime viewership
• get_viewership - Query viewership metrics
• get_creator_viewership - Query creator viewership metrics
• get_public_viewership - Query public total views metrics
• get_usage - Query usage metrics

multistream

• get_all - Retrieve Multistream Targets
• create - Create a multistream target
• get - Retrieve a multistream target
• update - Update Multistream Target
• delete - Delete a multistream target

playback

• get - Retrieve Playback Info

room

• create - Create a room ⚠️ Deprecated
• get - Retrieve a room ⚠️ Deprecated
• delete - Delete a room ⚠️ Deprecated
• start_egress - Start room RTMP egress ⚠️ Deprecated
• stop_egress - Stop room RTMP egress ⚠️ Deprecated
• create_user - Create a room user ⚠️ Deprecated
• get_user - Get user details ⚠️ Deprecated
• update_user - Update a room user ⚠️ Deprecated
• delete_user - Remove a user from the room ⚠️ Deprecated

session

• get_clips - Retrieve clips of a session
• get_all - Retrieve sessions
• get - Retrieve a session
• get_recorded - Retrieve Recorded Sessions

stream

• create - Create a stream
• get_all - Retrieve streams
• get - Retrieve a stream
• update - Update a stream
• delete - Delete a stream
• terminate - Terminates a live stream
• start_pull - Start ingest for a pull stream
• create_clip - Create a clip
• get_clips - Retrieve clips of a livestream
• add_multistream_target - Add a multistream target
• remove_multistream_target - Remove a multistream target

task

• get_all - Retrieve Tasks
• get - Retrieve a Task

transcode

• create - Transcode a video

webhook

• get_all - Retrieve a Webhook
• create - Create a webhook
• get - Retrieve a webhook
• update - Update a webhook
• delete - Delete a webhook
• get_logs - Retrieve webhook logs
• get_log - Retrieve a webhook log
• resend_log - Resend a webhook

File uploads

Certain SDK methods accept file objects as part of a request body or multi-part request. It is possible and typically recommended to upload files as a stream rather than reading the entire contents into memory. This avoids excessive memory consumption and potentially crashing with out-of-memory errors when working with very large files. The following example demonstrates how to attach a file stream to a request.

from livepeer import Livepeer

s = Livepeer(
    api_key="<YOUR_BEARER_TOKEN_HERE>",
)

res = s.generate.image_to_image(request={
    "prompt": "<value>",
    "image": {
        "file_name": "example.file",
        "content": open("example.file", "rb"),
    },
})

if res.image_response is not None:
    # handle response
    pass

Retries

Some of the endpoints in this SDK support retries. If you use the SDK without any configuration, it will fall back to the default retry strategy provided by the API. However, the default retry strategy can be overridden on a per-operation basis, or across the entire SDK.

To change the default retry strategy for a single API call, simply provide a RetryConfig object to the call:

from livepeer import Livepeer
from livepeer.models import components
from livepeer.utils import BackoffStrategy, RetryConfig

s = Livepeer(
    api_key="<YOUR_BEARER_TOKEN_HERE>",
)

res = s.stream.create(request={
    "name": "test_stream",
    "pull": {
        "source": "https://myservice.com/live/stream.flv",
        "headers": {
            "Authorization": "Bearer 123",
        },
        "location": {
            "lat": 39.739,
            "lon": -104.988,
        },
    },
    "playback_policy": {
        "type": components.Type.WEBHOOK,
        "webhook_id": "1bde4o2i6xycudoy",
        "webhook_context": {
            "streamerId": "my-custom-id",
        },
        "refresh_interval": 600,
    },
    "profiles": [
        {
            "width": 1280,
            "name": "720p",
            "height": 720,
            "bitrate": 3000000,
            "fps": 30,
            "fps_den": 1,
            "quality": 23,
            "gop": "2",
            "profile": components.Profile.H264_BASELINE,
        },
    ],
    "record": False,
    "recording_spec": {
        "profiles": [
            {
                "bitrate": 3000000,
                "width": 1280,
                "name": "720p",
                "height": 720,
                "quality": 23,
                "fps": 30,
                "fps_den": 1,
                "gop": "2",
                "profile": components.TranscodeProfileProfile.H264_BASELINE,
                "encoder": components.TranscodeProfileEncoder.H_264,
            },
        ],
    },
    "multistream": {
        "targets": [
            {
                "profile": "720p",
                "video_only": False,
                "id": "PUSH123",
                "spec": {
                    "url": "rtmps://live.my-service.tv/channel/secretKey",
                    "name": "My target",
                },
            },
        ],
    },
},
    RetryConfig("backoff", BackoffStrategy(1, 50, 1.1, 100), False))

if res.stream is not None:
    # handle response
    pass

If you'd like to override the default retry strategy for all operations that support retries, you can use the retry_config optional parameter when initializing the SDK:

from livepeer import Livepeer
from livepeer.models import components
from livepeer.utils import BackoffStrategy, RetryConfig

s = Livepeer(
    retry_config=RetryConfig("backoff", BackoffStrategy(1, 50, 1.1, 100), False),
    api_key="<YOUR_BEARER_TOKEN_HERE>",
)

res = s.stream.create(request={
    "name": "test_stream",
    "pull": {
        "source": "https://myservice.com/live/stream.flv",
        "headers": {
            "Authorization": "Bearer 123",
        },
        "location": {
            "lat": 39.739,
            "lon": -104.988,
        },
    },
    "playback_policy": {
        "type": components.Type.WEBHOOK,
        "webhook_id": "1bde4o2i6xycudoy",
        "webhook_context": {
            "streamerId": "my-custom-id",
        },
        "refresh_interval": 600,
    },
    "profiles": [
        {
            "width": 1280,
            "name": "720p",
            "height": 720,
            "bitrate": 3000000,
            "fps": 30,
            "fps_den": 1,
            "quality": 23,
            "gop": "2",
            "profile": components.Profile.H264_BASELINE,
        },
    ],
    "record": False,
    "recording_spec": {
        "profiles": [
            {
                "bitrate": 3000000,
                "width": 1280,
                "name": "720p",
                "height": 720,
                "quality": 23,
                "fps": 30,
                "fps_den": 1,
                "gop": "2",
                "profile": components.TranscodeProfileProfile.H264_BASELINE,
                "encoder": components.TranscodeProfileEncoder.H_264,
            },
        ],
    },
    "multistream": {
        "targets": [
            {
                "profile": "720p",
                "video_only": False,
                "id": "PUSH123",
                "spec": {
                    "url": "rtmps://live.my-service.tv/channel/secretKey",
                    "name": "My target",
                },
            },
        ],
    },
})

if res.stream is not None:
    # handle response
    pass

Error Handling

Handling errors in this SDK should largely match your expectations. All operations return a response object or raise an error. If Error objects are specified in your OpenAPI Spec, the SDK will raise the appropriate Error type.

Error Object	Status Code	Content Type
errors.Error	404	application/json
errors.SDKError	4xx-5xx	/

Example

from livepeer import Livepeer
from livepeer.models import errors

s = Livepeer(
    api_key="<YOUR_BEARER_TOKEN_HERE>",
)

res = None
try:
    res = s.playback.get(id="<id>")

    if res.playback_info is not None:
        # handle response
        pass

except errors.Error as e:
    # handle e.data: errors.ErrorData
    raise(e)
except errors.SDKError as e:
    # handle exception
    raise(e)

Custom HTTP Client

The Python SDK makes API calls using the httpx HTTP library. In order to provide a convenient way to configure timeouts, cookies, proxies, custom headers, and other low-level configuration, you can initialize the SDK client with your own HTTP client instance. Depending on whether you are using the sync or async version of the SDK, you can pass an instance of HttpClient or AsyncHttpClient respectively, which are Protocol's ensuring that the client has the necessary methods to make API calls. This allows you to wrap the client with your own custom logic, such as adding custom headers, logging, or error handling, or you can just pass an instance of httpx.Client or httpx.AsyncClient directly.

For example, you could specify a header for every request that this sdk makes as follows:

from livepeer import Livepeer
import httpx

http_client = httpx.Client(headers={"x-custom-header": "someValue"})
s = Livepeer(client=http_client)

or you could wrap the client with your own custom logic:

from livepeer import Livepeer
from livepeer.httpclient import AsyncHttpClient
import httpx

class CustomClient(AsyncHttpClient):
    client: AsyncHttpClient

    def __init__(self, client: AsyncHttpClient):
        self.client = client

    async def send(
        self,
        request: httpx.Request,
        *,
        stream: bool = False,
        auth: Union[
            httpx._types.AuthTypes, httpx._client.UseClientDefault, None
        ] = httpx.USE_CLIENT_DEFAULT,
        follow_redirects: Union[
            bool, httpx._client.UseClientDefault
        ] = httpx.USE_CLIENT_DEFAULT,
    ) -> httpx.Response:
        request.headers["Client-Level-Header"] = "added by client"

        return await self.client.send(
            request, stream=stream, auth=auth, follow_redirects=follow_redirects
        )

    def build_request(
        self,
        method: str,
        url: httpx._types.URLTypes,
        *,
        content: Optional[httpx._types.RequestContent] = None,
        data: Optional[httpx._types.RequestData] = None,
        files: Optional[httpx._types.RequestFiles] = None,
        json: Optional[Any] = None,
        params: Optional[httpx._types.QueryParamTypes] = None,
        headers: Optional[httpx._types.HeaderTypes] = None,
        cookies: Optional[httpx._types.CookieTypes] = None,
        timeout: Union[
            httpx._types.TimeoutTypes, httpx._client.UseClientDefault
        ] = httpx.USE_CLIENT_DEFAULT,
        extensions: Optional[httpx._types.RequestExtensions] = None,
    ) -> httpx.Request:
        return self.client.build_request(
            method,
            url,
            content=content,
            data=data,
            files=files,
            json=json,
            params=params,
            headers=headers,
            cookies=cookies,
            timeout=timeout,
            extensions=extensions,
        )

s = Livepeer(async_client=CustomClient(httpx.AsyncClient()))

Authentication

Per-Client Security Schemes

This SDK supports the following security scheme globally:

Name	Type	Scheme
api_key	http	HTTP Bearer

To authenticate with the API the api_key parameter must be set when initializing the SDK client instance. For example:

from livepeer import Livepeer
from livepeer.models import components

s = Livepeer(
    api_key="<YOUR_BEARER_TOKEN_HERE>",
)

res = s.stream.create(request={
    "name": "test_stream",
    "pull": {
        "source": "https://myservice.com/live/stream.flv",
        "headers": {
            "Authorization": "Bearer 123",
        },
        "location": {
            "lat": 39.739,
            "lon": -104.988,
        },
    },
    "playback_policy": {
        "type": components.Type.WEBHOOK,
        "webhook_id": "1bde4o2i6xycudoy",
        "webhook_context": {
            "streamerId": "my-custom-id",
        },
        "refresh_interval": 600,
    },
    "profiles": [
        {
            "width": 1280,
            "name": "720p",
            "height": 720,
            "bitrate": 3000000,
            "fps": 30,
            "fps_den": 1,
            "quality": 23,
            "gop": "2",
            "profile": components.Profile.H264_BASELINE,
        },
    ],
    "record": False,
    "recording_spec": {
        "profiles": [
            {
                "bitrate": 3000000,
                "width": 1280,
                "name": "720p",
                "height": 720,
                "quality": 23,
                "fps": 30,
                "fps_den": 1,
                "gop": "2",
                "profile": components.TranscodeProfileProfile.H264_BASELINE,
                "encoder": components.TranscodeProfileEncoder.H_264,
            },
        ],
    },
    "multistream": {
        "targets": [
            {
                "profile": "720p",
                "video_only": False,
                "id": "PUSH123",
                "spec": {
                    "url": "rtmps://live.my-service.tv/channel/secretKey",
                    "name": "My target",
                },
            },
        ],
    },
})

if res.stream is not None:
    # handle response
    pass

Summary

Livepeer API Reference: Welcome to the Livepeer API reference docs. Here you will find all the endpoints exposed on the standard Livepeer API, learn how to use them and what they return.

Table of Contents

• SDK Installation
• IDE Support
• SDK Example Usage
• Available Resources and Operations
• File uploads
• Retries
• Error Handling
• Server Selection
• Custom HTTP Client
• Authentication
• Debugging

IDE Support

PyCharm

Generally, the SDK will work well with most IDEs out of the box. However, when using PyCharm, you can enjoy much better integration with Pydantic by installing an additional plugin.

• PyCharm Pydantic Plugin

Debugging

You can setup your SDK to emit debug logs for SDK requests and responses.

You can pass your own logger class directly into your SDK.

from livepeer import Livepeer
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
s = Livepeer(debug_logger=logging.getLogger("livepeer"))