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README.rst
1Livestreamer 2============ 3 4.. image:: http://img.shields.io/pypi/v/livestreamer.svg?style=flat-square 5 :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/livestreamer 6 7.. image:: http://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/livestreamer.svg?style=flat-square 8 :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/livestreamer 9 10.. image:: http://img.shields.io/travis/chrippa/livestreamer.svg?style=flat-square 11 :target: http://travis-ci.org/chrippa/livestreamer 12 13 14 15Overview 16-------- 17 18Livestreamer is a `command-line utility`_ that pipes video streams 19from various services into a video player, such as `VLC <http://videolan.org/>`_. 20The main purpose of Livestreamer is to allow the user to avoid buggy and CPU 21heavy flash plugins but still be able to enjoy various streamed content. 22There is also an `API`_ available for developers who want access 23to the video stream data. 24 25- Documentation: http://docs.livestreamer.io/ 26- Issue tracker: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/issues 27- PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/livestreamer 28- Discussions: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/livestreamer 29- IRC: #livestreamer @ Freenode 30- Free software: Simplified BSD license 31 32.. _command-line utility: http://docs.livestreamer.io/cli.html 33.. _API: http://docs.livestreamer.io/api_guide.html 34 35Features 36-------- 37 38Livestreamer is built upon a plugin system which allows support for new services 39to be easily added. Currently most of the big streaming services are supported, 40such as: 41 42- `Dailymotion <http://dailymotion.com/live>`_ 43- `Livestream <http://livestream.com>`_ 44- `Twitch <http://twitch.tv>`_ 45- `UStream <http://ustream.tv>`_ 46- `YouTube Live <http://youtube.com>`_ 47 48... and many more. A full list of plugins currently included can be found 49on the `Plugins`_ page. 50 51.. _Plugins: http://docs.livestreamer.io/plugin_matrix.html 52 53Quickstart 54----------- 55 56The default behaviour of Livestreamer is to playback a stream in the default 57player (`VLC <http://videolan.org/>`_). 58 59.. sourcecode:: console 60 61 # pip install livestreamer 62 $ livestreamer twitch.tv/day9tv best 63 [cli][info] Found matching plugin twitch for URL twitch.tv/day9tv 64 [cli][info] Opening stream: source 65 [cli][info] Starting player: vlc 66 67For more in-depth usage and install instructions see the `User guide`_. 68 69.. _User guide: http://docs.livestreamer.io/index.html#user-guide 70 71Related software 72---------------- 73 74Feel free to add any Livestreamer related things to 75the `wiki <https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/wiki/>`_. 76 77 78Contributing 79------------ 80 81If you wish to report a bug or contribute code, please take a look 82at `CONTRIBUTING.rst <CONTRIBUTING.rst>`_ first. 83 84