StartLive

Bypass the requirement to use Bilibili’s official "LiveHime" client to start streaming.

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Disclaimer

• This software is open-sourced under the GNU General Public License 3.0.
• The software logo is not licensed under GPL-3.0. All rights are reserved by the artist 花漫酱 and the software developer. You may not claim GPL-3.0 authorization to use the logo without permission, nor use it for any commercial purpose without authorization.

Download via Releases

Download link: Click here to download

Install via Windows Package Manager (winget)

winget install Radekyspec.StartLive

Install via AUR (Arch Linux/Manjaro)

Install startlive-git using an AUR helper (e.g. paru, yay, pikaur).

paru -S startlive-git

Install from PyPI

Requires Python 3.11–3.14, a desktop environment and a supported system keyring.

With uv:

uv tool install startlive
startlive
uv tool upgrade startlive

With pip:

python -m pip install startlive
startlive
python -m pip install --upgrade startlive

The startlive command works from any directory. Use startlive --help for options and startlive --version to check the installed version. Python package installations use uv/pip for updates. On Windows, configuration and logs are stored under %LOCALAPPDATA%/StartLive; account credentials remain in the system keyring.

Maintainers: see the PyPI publishing guide.

Supported Linux installations are managed and updated through the system package manager. The in-app Velopack updater is disabled on Linux, so Velopack does not need to be installed separately.

Screenshots

How to Use

Open the step-by-step guide (Tencent Docs)

Run from Source / Development

Prerequisites

• 3.11 <= Python <= 3.14
• Tested on Python 3.14.6; Python 3.12.10 recommended
• Desktop environment
• PySide6 (Qt for Python) supported platforms/architectures
• A keyring backend supported by the keyring package
  • On Windows: typically the built-in Windows Credential Locker
  • On macOS: typically the system Keychain

Install & Run

Create a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv

• Windows:

.\venv\Scripts\pip.exe install -e .
.\venv\Scripts\python.exe .\StartLive.py

• macOS / Linux:

./venv/bin/pip install -e .
./venv/bin/python ./StartLive.py

Note: Bilibili does not enable HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) streaming for all users. If pushing the stream fails, please check your encoder/codec settings.