streamlabsio 1.1.1

Get real time Twitch/Youtube events through Streamlabs SocketIO API

A Python client for Streamlabs Socket API

For an outline of past/future changes refer to: CHANGELOG

Requirements

• A Streamlabs Socket API key.

  • You can acquire this by logging into your Streamlabs.com dashboard then Settings->Api Settings->API Tokens

• Python 3.8 or greater

How to install using pip

pip install streamlabsio

How to Use

You may store your api key in a config.toml file, its contents should resemble:

[streamlabs]
token = "<apikey>"

Place it next to your __main__.py file.

Otherwise:

You may pass it as a keyword argument.

Example __main__.py:

import streamlabsio


def on_twitch_event(event, data):
    print(f"{event}: {data.attrs()}")


def main():
    with streamlabsio.connect(token="<apikey>") as client:
        client.obs.on("streamlabs", on_twitch_event)
        client.obs.on("twitch_account", on_twitch_event)

        # run for 30 seconds then disconnect client from server
        client.sio.sleep(30)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

note

From the SocketIO docs, client.sio.wait() may be used if your application has nothing to do in the main thread.

Client class

streamlabsio.connect(token="<apikey>", raw=False)

The following keyword arguments may be passed:

• token: str Streamlabs SocketIO api token.
• raw: boolean=False Receive raw data messages as json objects.

The following attribute is available:

• raw: boolean Toggle raw mode at runtime.

Attributes

For event data you may inspect the available attributes using attrs().

example:

def on_twitch_event(event, data):
    print(f"{event}: {data.attrs()}")

Errors

• SteamlabsSIOError: Base StreamlabsSIO error class
• SteamlabsSIOConnectionError: Exception raised when connection errors occur

Logging

To view raw incoming event data set logging level to DEBUG. Check debug example.

Official Documentation

• Streamlabs Socket API