Livestreamer is CLI program that extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice.
Project description
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
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/.
Contributing
If you wish to report a bug or contribute code, please take a look at CONTRIBUTING.rst first.
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