twitchy-term

A terminal tool for browsing/streaming on Twitch.tv.


Keywords
twitch, livestreamer, command, line, interface, terminal, stream
License
MIT
Install
pip install twitchy-term==1.0.1

Documentation

Twitchy-Term

A simple terminal tool for browsing Twitch.tv and watching streams on VLC Player using Livestreamer.

http://i.imgur.com/G0WCCUj.png

Dependencies

  • Python 3 (tested on version 3.4)
  • Livestreamer
  • VLC Player (sudo apt-get install vlc)

Installation

Using pip:

$ sudo pip3 install twitchy-term

OR

Clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/Andy-Au/twitchy-term.git
$ cd twitchy-term
$ sudo python3 setup.py install

Usage

Simply run:

$ twitchy-term

It also takes an optional argument for streaming quality (default is best):

$ twitchy-term -q [quality]

Available qualities include:

  • best
  • high
  • medium
  • low
  • worst

Twitchy-Term offers the following pages of Twitch.tv:

  • Featured streams (from Twitch.tv's home page)
  • Browse top games (and top streams of each)
  • Search

Commands

â–²/â–¼: Scroll up and down the current list of items
f: Featured streams
g: Top Games list
s: Search
c: Change stream quality
q: Quit

In Top Games list

e: View top streams of current selected game

In pages where streams are listed

p: Play the selected stream in VLC player with current quality

License

Please see LICENSE.