live-dl vs pytchat

live-dl

Web GUI for Youtube-dl and Bash Script auto download/record upcoming live stream on Youtube and Twitch. (by herowinb)

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pytchat

library for youtube chat. (by taizan-hokuto)

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live-dl		pytchat
	Project
1	Mentions	2
28	Stars	224
-	Growth	-
5.9	Activity	2.0
30 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
Shell	Language	Python
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0	License	MIT License

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live-dl

Posts with mentions or reviews of live-dl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-10.

Download YouTube Chat During Ongoing Livestream?
3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 10 Apr 2021

Also this fork of live-dl has recording live chat with pytchat already implemented + it supports monitoring member streams. It uses docker. https://github.com/herowinb/live-dl

pytchat

Posts with mentions or reviews of pytchat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-10.

Download YouTube Chat During Ongoing Livestream?
3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 10 Apr 2021

Use pytchat. You can use this guy’s script to execute it https://gist.github.com/Equim-chan/bdb6e64425d10d09196eb5eadfeb600f
Can't download live chat JSON anymore
1 project | /r/youtubedl | 30 Jan 2021

I also found https://github.com/taizan-hokuto/pytchat which has been working without any errors.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing live-dl and pytchat you can also consider the following projects:

docker-amtd - AMTD is a Radarr companion script to automatically download movie trailers and extras for use in other video applications (plex/kodi/jellyfin/emby)

pytube - A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.

docker-amvd - AMVD is a Lidarr companion script to automatically download and tag Music Videos for use in other video applications (plex/kodi/jellyfin/emby)

live-dl - Monitor and download live streams from YouTube

youtube-dl-gui - A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.

YT-Feeder - Rofi-Based YouTube RSS Reader

awesome-youtubers - An awesome list of awesome YouTubers that teach about technology. Tutorials about web development, computer science, machine learning, game development, cybersecurity, and more.

pytube - A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos. [Moved to: https://github.com/pytube/pytube]

Hitomi-Downloader - :cake: Desktop utility to download images/videos/music/text from various websites, and more.