streamlink

Extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice. More information: <https://streamlink.github.io>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/streamlink.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install streamlink
Ubuntu
apt-get install streamlink
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S streamlink
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install streamlink
Fedora
dnf install python3-streamlink
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install streamlink
OS X
brew install streamlink
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/streamlink

Extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice. More information: <https://streamlink.github.io>.

  • Attempt to extract streams from the URL specified, and if it's successful, print out a list of available streams to choose from:
    streamlink example.com/stream
  • Open a stream with the specified quality:
    streamlink example.com/stream 720p60
  • Select the highest or lowest available quality:
    streamlink example.com/stream best|worst
  • Specify which player to use to feed stream data to (VLC is used by default if found):
    streamlink --player=mpv example.com/stream best
  • Specify the amount of time to skip from the beginning of the stream. For live streams, this is a negative offset from the end of the stream (rewind):
    streamlink --hls-start-offset [HH:]MM:SS example.com/stream best
  • Skip to the beginning of a live stream, or as far back as possible:
    streamlink --hls-live-restart example.com/stream best
  • Write stream data to a file instead of playing it:
    streamlink --output path/to/file.ts example.com/stream best
  • Open the stream in the player, while at the same time writing it to a file:
    streamlink --record path/to/file.ts example.com/stream best

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