streamlink
Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player
BSD-2-CLAUSE License
Installation
Please take a look at the documentation for different ways of installing Streamlink:
Features
Streamlink is built on top of a plugin system which allows support for new services to be added easily. Most of the popular streaming services are supported, such as Twitch, YouTube, and many more.
A list of all plugins currently included can be found on the plugins page.
Quickstart
After installing, simply run:
streamlink "STREAMURL" best
The default behavior of Streamlink is to play back streams in the VLC player, but a lot of other options and output methods are available, such as writing the stream to the filesystem, reading stream metadata, etc.
For more in-depth usage, please refer to the CLI documentation.
An API guide and API reference is available for Python implementors of Streamlink.
Contributing
All contributions are welcome. Feel free to open a new thread on the issue tracker or submit a new pull request. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md first. Thanks!
Support
If you think that Streamlink is useful and if you want to keep the project alive, then please consider supporting its maintainers by sending a small and optionally recurring tip via the available options. Your support is very much appreciated, thank you!