Livecli

Livecli is a Command-line utility that pipes videos from online streaming services to a variety of video players.

The main purpose of Livecli is to convert CPU-heavy websites to a less CPU-intensive format.

• GitHub: https://github.com/livecli/livecli
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/livecli/livecli/issues
• Download stable version: https://github.com/livecli/livecli/releases/latest
• Stable Website: https://livecli.github.io/index.html
• Latest Website: https://livecli.github.io/latest/index.html

Livecli is a fork of the Streamlink and Livestreamer project

Installation

Python version 3.6 or higher is recommended.

Installation via Python pip

pip3 install livecli

Manual installation via Python

git clone https://github.com/livecli/livecli
cd livecli
python3 setup.py install

Windows

• [Windows installer version](https://livecli.github.io/install.html#windows-binaries)
• [Windows portable version](https://github.com/livecli/livecli-portable#livecli-portable)

Features

Livecli is built via a plugin system which allows new services to be easily added.

A list of all supported plugins can be found on the plugin page.

There is also a generic plugin that will try to open a stream on every website.

Quickstart

After installing, simply use:

livecli STREAMURL best

Livecli will automatically open the stream in its default video player!

See Livecli's detailed documentation for all available configuration options, CLI parameters and usage examples.