twitch-dl
CLI tool for downloading videos from Twitch. (by ihabunek)
streamlink
Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player (by streamlink)
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| twitch-dl | streamlink | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 131 | |
| 614 | 9,546 | |
| - | 1.2% | |
| 5.4 | 9.6 | |
| 8 days ago | 1 day ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
twitch-dl
Posts with mentions or reviews of twitch-dl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-30.
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Problem with passing a variable from a loop into a parameter list for subprocess.run.
the subprocess is twitch-dl from https://github.com/ihabunek/twitch-dl/tree/master/twitchdl
- Twitch has made a change to their API which has temporarily broken many apps including the LSF clip bot.
- Twitch broke clip downloading for countless apps, including our mirror bot. No fix ATM, sorry!
streamlink
Posts with mentions or reviews of streamlink.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-15.
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TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads
It doesn't look like Streamlink is immune to the challenges of Twitch ads: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/issues/4949
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Self-hosted cam recording site code?
i can't quite tell what you're asking for but check out https://streamlink.github.io/
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is there a way to record websites automatically
Take a look at this: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/
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Decent Touch Controls for FPS Games?
Streamlink != Steam Link
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--get-url seperated into audio and video link
alternatively, you can use streamlink to stream the video and let it open vlc for you.
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Searching for a GUI that allows me to run custom terminal commands
A summary of my use case: I like to watch Twitch streams via streamlink. For that purpose I use wtwitch, a terminal program which allows me to maintain a list of my favourite channels without a Twitch account, check which of those streamers are currently online and run a command to open their streams via streamlink.
- Playoff videos
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Use me if as a "i don't care about the kick drama it works fine i like the stream" button
Streamlink has very detailed and newbie friendly documentation. Here's the plugin you'd need to scrape Kick links.
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Problems when downloading whole Twitch VODs - no sound if .ts files are missing - best procedure (yt-dlp)?
I believe yt-dlp works and merges everything already for you. I use streamlink https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink for most of twitch stuff and all you have to do is pass in the vod url
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How to watch streams without enduring kick.com [TUTORIAL]!Q!!!!!!
Next you will need streamlink, again in the same powershell instance type.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing twitch-dl and streamlink you can also consider the following projects:
youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
youtube-dl-gui - A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.
youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
TwitchLeecher - Twitch Leecher - The Broadcast Downloader
youtube-dl-server - An alternate (work in progress) version of https://github.com/manbearwiz/youtube-dl-server. (On pause)
mpv - 🎥 Command line video player
tubearchivist - Your self hosted YouTube media server
ytfzf - A posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal. (Without API)
offstream - Personal twitch stream recorder
streamlink-twitch-gui - A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink
stash - An organizer for your porn, written in Go. Documentation: https://docs.stashapp.cc
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streamlink vs mpv
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streamlink vs ytfzf
twitch-dl vs offstream
streamlink vs streamlink-twitch-gui
twitch-dl vs stash
streamlink vs youtube-dl