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streamlink - extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice

Streamlink is command-line application, this means the commands described here should be typed into a terminal. On Windows this means you should open the command prompt or PowerShell, on Mac OS X open the Terminal app and if you're on Linux or BSD you probably already know the drill.

The way Streamlink works is that it's only a means to extract and transport the streams, and the playback is done by an external video player. Streamlink works best with VLC or mpv, which are also cross-platform, but other players may be compatible too, see the Players page for a complete overview.

Now to get into actually using Streamlink, let's say you want to watch the stream located on http://twitch.tv/day9tv, you start off by telling Streamlink where to attempt to extract streams from. This is done by giving the URL to the command streamlink as the first argument:

$ streamlink twitch.tv/day9tv
[cli][info] Found matching plugin twitch for URL twitch.tv/day9tv
Available streams: audio, high, low, medium, mobile (worst), source (best)


NOTE:

You don't need to include the protocol when dealing with HTTP URLs, e.g. just twitch.tv/day9tv is enough and quicker to type.


This command will tell Streamlink to attempt to extract streams from the URL specified, and if it's successful, print out a list of available streams to choose from.

In some cases (Supported streaming protocols) local files are supported using the file:// protocol, for example a local HLS playlist can be played. Relative file paths and absolute paths are supported. All path separators are /, even on Windows.

$ streamlink hls://file://C:/hls/playlist.m3u8
[cli][info] Found matching plugin stream for URL hls://file://C:/hls/playlist.m3u8
Available streams: 180p (worst), 272p, 408p, 554p, 818p, 1744p (best)


To select a stream and start playback, we simply add the stream name as a second argument to the streamlink command:

$ streamlink twitch.tv/day9tv source
[cli][info] Found matching plugin twitch for URL twitch.tv/day9tv
[cli][info] Opening stream: source (hls)
[cli][info] Starting player: vlc


The stream you chose should now be playing in the player. It's a common use case to just want start the highest quality stream and not be bothered with what it's named. To do this just specify best as the stream name and Streamlink will attempt to rank the streams and open the one of highest quality. You can also specify worst to get the lowest quality.

Now that you have a basic grasp of how Streamlink works, you may want to look into customizing it to your own needs, such as:

  • Creating a configuration file of options you want to use
  • Setting up your player to cache some data before playing the stream to help avoiding buffering issues

Writing the command-line options every time is inconvenient, that's why Streamlink is capable of reading options from a configuration file instead.

Streamlink will look for config files in different locations depending on your platform:

Platform Location
Unix-like (POSIX) 0.0 • 2 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/streamlink/config • 2 ~/.streamlinkrc 168u
Windows %APPDATA%\streamlink\streamlinkrc

You can also specify the location yourself using the --config option.

NOTE:

  • $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is ~/.config if it has not been overridden
  • %APPDATA% is usually <your user directory>\AppData



NOTE:

On Windows there is a default config created by the installer but on any other platform you must create the file yourself.


The config file is a simple text file and should contain one command-line option (omitting the dashes) per line in the format:

option=value


or for a option without value:

option


NOTE:

Any quotes used will be part of the value, so only use when the value needs them, e.g. specifying a player with a path containing spaces.


# Player options
player=mpv --cache 2048
player-no-close
# Authenticate with Twitch
twitch-oauth-token=mytoken


NOTE:

Full player paths are supported via configuration file options such as player="C:\mpv-x86_64\mpv"


You may want to use specific options for some plugins only. This can be accomplished by placing those settings inside a plugin specific config file. Options inside these config files will override the main config file when a URL matching the plugin is used.

Streamlink expects this config to be named like the main config but with .<plugin name> attached to the end.

Platform Location
Unix-like (POSIX) 0.0 • 2 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/streamlink/config.twitch • 2 ~/.streamlinkrc.ustreamtv 168u
Windows %APPDATA%\streamlink\streamlinkrc.youtube

Have a look at the list of plugins to see the name of each built-in plugin.

It's possible to access subscription content on Twitch by giving Streamlink access to your account.

Authentication is done by creating an OAuth token that Streamlink will use to access your account. It's done like this:

$ streamlink --twitch-oauth-authenticate


This will open a web browser where Twitch will ask you if you want to give Streamlink permission to access your account, then forwards you to a page with further instructions on how to use it.

Crunchyroll requires authenticating with a premium account to access some of their content. To do so, the plugin provides a couple of options to input your information, --crunchyroll-username and --crunchyroll-password.

You can login like this:

$ streamlink --crunchyroll-username=xxxx --crunchyroll-password=xxx http://crunchyroll.com/a-crunchyroll-episode-link


NOTE:

If you omit the password, streamlink will ask for it.


Once logged in, the plugin makes sure to save the session credentials to avoid asking your username and password again.

Nevertheless, these credentials are valid for a limited amount of time, so it might be a good idea to save your username and password in your configuration file anyway.

WARNING:

The API this plugin uses isn't supposed to be available to use it on computers. The plugin tries to blend in as a valid device using custom headers and following the API usual flow (e.g. reusing credentials), but this does not assure that your account will be safe from being spotted for unusual behavior.


You can use the --http-proxy and --https-proxy options (you need both since the plugin uses both protocols) to access the Crunchyroll servers through a proxy to be able to stream region locked content.

When doing this, it's very probable that you will get denied to access the stream; this occurs because the session and credentials used by the plugin where obtained when logged from your own region, and the server still assumes you're in that region.

For this, the plugin provides the --crunchyroll-purge-credentials option, which removes your saved session and credentials and tries to log in again using your username and password.

Like Crunchyroll, the FunimationNow plugin requires authenticating with a premium account to access some content: --funimation-email, --funimation-password. In addition, this plugin requires a incap_ses cookie to be sent with each HTTP request (see issue #2088); this unique session cookie can be found in your browser and sent via the --http-cookie option.

For example:

$ streamlink --funimation-email='xxx' --funimation-password='xxx' --http-cookie 'incap_ses_xxx=xxxx=' https://funimation.com/shows/show/an-episode-link


NOTE:

There are multiple ways to retrieve the required cookie. For more information on browser cookies, please consult the following:
•
What are cookies?



Streamlink will attempt to load standalone plugins from these directories:

Platform Location
Unix-like (POSIX) $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/streamlink/plugins
Windows %APPDATA%\streamlink\plugins

NOTE:

If a plugin is added with the same name as a built-in plugin then the added plugin will take precedence. This is useful if you want to upgrade plugins independently of the Streamlink version.


There are many types of streaming protocols used by services today and Streamlink supports most of them. It's possible to tell Streamlink to access a streaming protocol directly instead of relying on a plugin to extract the streams from a URL for you.

A protocol can be accessed directly by specifying it in the URL format:

protocol://path [key=value]


Accessing a stream that requires extra parameters to be passed along (e.g. RTMP):

$ streamlink "rtmp://streaming.server.net/playpath live=1 swfVfy=http://server.net/flashplayer.swf"


When passing parameters to the built-in stream plugins the values will either be treated as plain strings, as is the case in the above example for swfVry, or they will be interpreted as Python literals. For example you can pass a Python dict or Python list as one of the parameters.

$ streamlink "rtmp://streaming.server.net/playpath conn=['B:1', 'S:authMe', 'O:1', 'NN:code:1.23', 'NS:flag:ok', 'O:0']"
$ streamlink "hls://streaming.server.net/playpath params={'token': 'magicToken'}"


In the above examples conn will be passed as the Python list:

['B:1', 'S:authMe', 'O:1', 'NN:code:1.23', 'NS:flag:ok', 'O:0']


and params will be passed as the Python dict:

{'token': 'magicToken'}


Most streaming technologies simply requires you to pass a HTTP URL, this is a Adobe HDS stream:

$ streamlink hds://streaming.server.net/playpath/manifest.f4m


Name Prefix
Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming hds://
Akamai HD Adaptive Streaming akamaihd://
Apple HTTP Live Streaming hls:// [1]
MPEG-DASH [2] dash://
Real Time Messaging Protocol rtmp:// rtmpe:// rtmps:// rtmpt:// rtmpte://
Progressive HTTP, HTTPS, etc httpstream:// [1]
[1]
supports local files using the file:// protocol
[2]
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP

You can use the --http-proxy and --https-proxy options to change the proxy server that Streamlink will use for HTTP and HTTPS requests respectively. As HTTP and HTTPS requests can be handled by separate proxies, you may need to specify both options if the plugin you use makes HTTP and HTTPS requests.

Both HTTP and SOCKS proxies are supported, authentication is supported for both types.

NOTE:

When using a SOCKS proxy the socks4 and socks5 schemes mean that DNS lookups are done locally, rather than on the proxy server. To have the proxy server perform the DNS lookups, the socks4a and socks5h schemes should be used instead.


For example:

$ streamlink --http-proxy "http://user:pass@10.10.1.10:3128/" --https-proxy "socks5://10.10.1.10:1242"
$ streamlink --http-proxy "socks4a://10.10.1.10:1235" --https-proxy "socks5h://10.10.1.10:1234"



$ streamlink [OPTIONS] <URL> [STREAM]


A URL to attempt to extract streams from.

Usually, the protocol of http(s) URLs can be omitted ("https://"), depending on the implementation of the plugin being used.

Alternatively, the URL can also be specified by using the --url option.


Stream to play.

Use best or worst for selecting the highest or lowest available quality.

Fallback streams can be specified by using a comma-separated list:

"720p,480p,best"


If no stream is specified and --default-stream is not used, then a list of available streams will be printed.


Show this help message and exit.

Show version number and exit.

Print a list of all currently installed plugins.

Attempts to load plugins from these directories.

Multiple directories can be used by separating them with a comma.


Check if Streamlink has a plugin that can handle the specified URL.

Returns status code 1 for false and 0 for true.

Useful for external scripting.


Same as --can-handle-url but without following redirects when looking up the URL.

Load options from this config file.

Can be repeated to load multiple files, in which case the options are merged on top of each other where the last config has highest priority.


Set the log message threshold.

Valid levels are: none, error, warning, info, debug, trace


Hide all log output.

Alias for "--loglevel none".


Output JSON representations instead of the normal text output.

Useful for external scripting.


Unused, kept for compatibility reasons.

Default is: "no".


Runs a version check and exits.

The preferred locale setting, for selecting the preferred subtitle and audio language.

The locale is formatted as [language_code]_[country_code], eg. en_US or es_ES.

Default is: system locale.


Open a web browser where you can grant Streamlink access to your Twitch account which creates a token for use with --twitch-oauth-token.

Player to feed stream data to. By default, VLC will be used if it can be found in its default location.

This is a shell-like syntax to support using a specific player:

streamlink --player=vlc <url> [stream]


Absolute or relative paths can also be passed via this option in the event the player's executable can not be resolved:

streamlink --player=/path/to/vlc <url> [stream]
streamlink --player=./vlc-player/vlc <url> [stream]


To use a player that is located in a path with spaces you must quote the parameter or its value:

streamlink "--player=/path/with spaces/vlc" <url> [stream]
streamlink --player "C:\path\with spaces\mpc-hc64.exe" <url> [stream]


Options may also be passed to the player. For example:

streamlink --player "vlc --file-caching=5000" <url> [stream]


As an alternative to this, see the --player-args parameter, which does not log any custom player arguments.


This option allows you to customize the default arguments which are put together with the value of --player to create a command to execute. Unlike the --player parameter, custom player arguments will not be logged.

This value can contain formatting variables surrounded by curly braces, { and }. If you need to include a brace character, it can be escaped by doubling, e.g. {{ and }}.

Formatting variables available:

{filename}
This is the filename that the player will use. It's usually "-" (stdin), but can also be a URL or a file depending on the options used.

It's usually enough to use --player instead of this unless you need to add arguments after the filename.

Default is: "{filename}".

Example:

streamlink -p vlc -a "--play-and-exit {filename}" <url> [stream]



Allow the player to display its console output.

Make the player read the stream through a named pipe instead of the stdin pipe.

Make the player read the stream through HTTP instead of the stdin pipe.

Make the player read the stream through HTTP, but unlike --player-http it will continuously try to open the stream if the player requests it.

This makes it possible to handle stream disconnects if your player is capable of reconnecting to a HTTP stream. This is usually done by setting your player to a "repeat mode".


Serve stream data through HTTP without running any player. This is useful to allow external devices like smartphones or streaming boxes to watch streams they wouldn't be able to otherwise.

Behavior will be similar to the continuous HTTP option, but no player program will be started, and the server will listen on all available connections instead of just in the local (loopback) interface.

The URLs that can be used to access the stream will be printed to the console, and the server can be interrupted using CTRL-C.


A fixed port to use for the external HTTP server if that mode is enabled. Omit or set to 0 to use a random high ( >1024) port.

A comma-delimited list of stream types to pass to the player as a URL to let it handle the transport of the stream instead.

Stream types that can be converted into a playable URL are:

  • hls
  • http
  • rtmp

Make sure your player can handle the stream type when using this.


By default Streamlink will close the player when the stream ends. This is to avoid "dead" GUI players lingering after a stream ends.

It does however have the side-effect of sometimes closing a player before it has played back all of its cached data.

This option will instead let the player decide when to exit.


This option allows you to supply a title to be displayed in the title bar of the window that the video player is launched in.

This value can contain formatting variables surrounded by curly braces, { and }. If you need to include a brace character, it can be escaped by doubling, e.g. {{ and }}.

This option is only supported for the following players: mpv, vlc.

VLC has certain codes you can use inside your title. These are accessible inside --title by using a backslash before the dollar sign VLC uses to denote a format character.

e.g. to put the current date in your VLC window title, the string "$A" could be inserted inside your --title string.

A full list of the format codes VLC uses is available here: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Format_String/

mpv has certain codes you can use inside your title. These are accessible inside --title by using a backslash before the dollar sign mpv uses to denote a format character.

e.g. to put the current version of mpv running inside your mpv window title, the string "${{mpv-version}}" could be inserted inside your --title string.

A full list of the format codes mpv uses is available here: https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#property-expansion


Formatting variables available to use in --title:

{title}
If available, this is the title of the stream. Otherwise, it is the string "Unknown Title"
{author}
If available, this is the author of the stream. Otherwise, it is the string "Unknown Author"
{category}
If available, this is the category the stream has been placed into.
  • For Twitch, this is the game being played
  • For YouTube, it's the category e.g. Gaming, Sports, Music...

Otherwise, it is the string "No Category"

{game}
This is just a synonym for {category} which may make more sense for gaming oriented platforms. "Game being played" is a way to categorize the stream, so it doesn't need its own separate handling.

Examples:

streamlink -p vlc --title "{title} -!- {author} -!- {category} \$A" <url> [stream]
streamlink -p mpv --title "{title} -- {author} -- {category} -- (\${{mpv-version}})" <url> [stream]



Write stream data to FILENAME instead of playing it.

You will be prompted if the file already exists.


When using -o or -r, always write to file even if it already exists.

Write stream data to stdout instead of playing it.

Open the stream in the player, while at the same time writing it to FILENAME.

You will be prompted if the file already exists.


Write stream data to stdout, while at the same time writing it to FILENAME.

You will be prompted if the file already exists.


A URL to attempt to extract streams from.

Usually, the protocol of http(s) URLs can be omitted (https://), depending on the implementation of the plugin being used.

This is an alternative to setting the URL using a positional argument and can be useful if set in a config file.


Stream to play.

Use best or worst for selecting the highest or lowest available quality.

Fallback streams can be specified by using a comma-separated list:

"720p,480p,best"


This is an alternative to setting the stream using a positional argument and can be useful if set in a config file.


Retry fetching the list of available streams until streams are found while waiting DELAY second(s) between each attempt. If unset, only one attempt will be made to fetch the list of streams available.

The number of fetch retry attempts can be capped with --retry-max.


When using --retry-streams, stop retrying the fetch after COUNT retry attempt(s). Fetch will retry infinitely if COUNT is zero or unset.

If --retry-max is set without setting --retry-streams, the delay between retries will default to 1 second.


After a successful fetch, try ATTEMPTS time(s) to open the stream until giving up.

Default is: 1.


A comma-delimited list of stream types to allow.

The order will be used to separate streams when there are multiple streams with the same name but different stream types. Any stream type not listed will be omitted from the available streams list. A * can be used as a wildcard to match any other type of stream, eg. muxed-stream.

Default is: "rtmp,hls,hds,http,akamaihd,*".


Fine tune the best and worst stream name synonyms by excluding unwanted streams.

If all of the available streams get excluded, best and worst will become inaccessible and new special stream synonyms best-unfiltered and worst-unfiltered can be used as a fallback selection method.

Uses a filter expression in the format:

[operator]<value>


Valid operators are >, >=, < and <=. If no operator is specified then equality is tested.

For example this will exclude streams ranked higher than "480p":

">480p"


Multiple filters can be used by separating each expression with a comma.

For example this will exclude streams from two quality types:

">480p,>medium"



The time live HDS streams will start from the edge of stream.

Default is: 10.0.


How many attempts should be done to download each HDS segment before giving up.

Default is: 3.


The size of the thread pool used to download HDS segments. Minimum value is 1 and maximum is 10.

Default is: 1.


HDS segment connect and read timeout.

Default is: 10.0.


Timeout for reading data from HDS streams.

Default is: 60.0.


How many segments from the end to start live HLS streams on.

The lower the value the lower latency from the source you will be, but also increases the chance of buffering.

Default is: 3.


How many attempts should be done to download each HLS segment before giving up.

Default is: 3.


How many attempts should be done to reload the HLS playlist before giving up.

Default is: 3.


The size of the thread pool used to download HLS segments. Minimum value is 1 and maximum is 10.

Default is: 1.


HLS segment connect and read timeout.

Default is: 10.0.


A comma-delimited list of segment names that will not be fetched.

Example: --hls-segment-ignore-names 000,001,002

This will ignore every segment that ends with 000.ts, 001.ts and 002.ts

Default is: None.

NOTE:

The --hls-timeout must be increased, to a time that is longer than the ignored break.



URI to segment encryption key. If no URI is specified, the URI contained in the segments will be used.

Example: --hls-segment-key-uri "https://example.com/hls/encryption_key"

Default is: None.


Selects a specific audio source or sources, by language code or name, when multiple audio sources are available. Can be * to download all audio sources.

Examples:

--hls-audio-select "English,German"
--hls-audio-select "en,de"
--hls-audio-select "*"


NOTE:

This is only useful in special circumstances where the regular locale option fails, such as when multiple sources of the same language exists.



Timeout for reading data from HLS streams.

Default is: 60.0.


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).

Default is: 00:00:00.


Limit the playback duration, useful for watching segments of a stream. The actual duration may be slightly longer, as it is rounded to the nearest HLS segment.

Default is: unlimited.


Skip to the beginning of a live stream, or as far back as possible.

Timeout for reading data from HTTP streams.

Default is: 60.0.


The maximum size of ringbuffer. Add a M or K suffix to specify mega or kilo bytes instead of bytes.

The ringbuffer is used as a temporary storage between the stream and the player. This is to allows us to download the stream faster than the player wants to read it.

The smaller the size, the higher chance of the player buffering if there are download speed dips and the higher size the more data we can use as a storage to catch up from speed dips.

It also allows you to temporary pause as long as the ringbuffer doesn't get full since we continue to download the stream in the background.

Default is: "16M".

NOTE:

A smaller size is recommended on lower end systems (such as Raspberry Pi) when playing stream types that require some extra processing (such as HDS) to avoid unnecessary background processing.



A SOCKS proxy that RTMP streams will use.

Example: 127.0.0.1:9050


RTMPDump is used to access RTMP streams. You can specify the location of the rtmpdump executable if it is not in your PATH.

Example: "/usr/local/bin/rtmpdump"


Timeout for reading data from RTMP streams.

Default is: 60.0.


How many attempts should be done to download each segment before giving up.

This is generic option used by streams not covered by other options, such as stream protocols specific to plugins, e.g. UStream.

Default is: 3.


The size of the thread pool used to download segments. Minimum value is 1 and maximum is 10.

This is generic option used by streams not covered by other options, such as stream protocols specific to plugins, e.g. UStream.

Default is: 1.


Segment connect and read timeout.

This is generic option used by streams not covered by other options, such as stream protocols specific to plugins, e.g. UStream.

Default is: 10.0.


Timeout for reading data from streams.

This is generic option used by streams not covered by other options, such as stream protocols specific to plugins, e.g. UStream.

Default is: 60.0.


If possible, translate the stream to a URL and print it.

Print the command-line used internally to play the stream.

This is only available on RTMP streams.


Log possible errors from internal subprocesses to a temporary file. The file will be saved in your systems temporary directory.

Useful when debugging rtmpdump related issues.


Log the subprocess errorlog to a specific file rather than a temporary file. Takes precedence over subprocess-errorlog.

Useful when debugging rtmpdump related issues.


FFMPEG is used to access or mux separate video and audio streams. You can specify the location of the ffmpeg executable if it is not in your PATH.

Example: "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg"


Write the console output from ffmpeg to the console.

Path to write the output from the ffmpeg console.

When muxing streams transcode the video to this CODEC.

Default is: "copy".

Example: "h264"


When muxing streams transcode the audio to this CODEC.

Default is: "copy".

Example: "aac"


A HTTP proxy to use for all HTTP requests.

Example: "http://hostname:port/"


A HTTPS capable proxy to use for all HTTPS requests.

Example: "https://hostname:port/"


A cookie to add to each HTTP request.

Can be repeated to add multiple cookies.


A header to add to each HTTP request.

Can be repeated to add multiple headers.


A query parameter to add to each HTTP request.

Can be repeated to add multiple query parameters.


Ignore HTTP settings set in the environment such as environment variables (HTTP_PROXY, etc) or ~/.netrc authentication.

Don't attempt to verify SSL certificates.

Usually a bad idea, only use this if you know what you're doing.


Disable Diffie Hellman key exchange

Usually a bad idea, only use this if you know what you're doing.


SSL certificate to use.

Expects a .pem file.


SSL certificate to use.

Expects a .crt and a .key file.


General timeout used by all HTTP requests except the ones covered by other options.

Default is: 20.0.


The username associated with your ABweb account, required to access any ABweb stream.

A ABweb account password to use with --abweb-username.

Purge cached ABweb credentials to initiate a new session and reauthenticate.

The username used to register with afreecatv.com.

A afreecatv.com account password to use with --afreeca-username.

The email address used to register with animelab.com.

A animelab.com account password to use with --animelab-email.

The username used to register with bbc.co.uk.

A bbc.co.uk account password to use with --bbciplayer-username.

Prefer HD streams over local SD streams, some live programmes may not be broadcast in HD.

The email associated with your BT Sport account, required to access any BT Sport stream.

Your BT Sport account password.

A BTV username required to access any stream.

A BTV account password to use with --btv-username.

A Crunchyroll username to allow access to restricted streams.

A Crunchyroll password for use with --crunchyroll-username.

If left blank you will be prompted.


Purge cached Crunchyroll credentials to initiate a new session and reauthenticate.

Set a specific session ID for crunchyroll, can be used to bypass region restrictions. If using an authenticated session ID, it is recommended that the authentication parameters be omitted as the session ID is account specific.

NOTE:

The session ID will be overwritten if authentication is used and the session ID does not match the account.



Email address for your Funimation account.

Password for your Funimation account.

The audio language to use for the stream; japanese or english.

Default is: "english".


Enable automatically including available subtitles in to the output stream.

The email address used to register with liveedu.tv.

A LiveEdu account password to use with --liveedu-email.

Include subtitles for the deaf or hard of hearing, if available.

The email associated with your openrectv account, required to access any openrectv stream.

An openrectv account password to use with --openrectv-email.

The email/username used to register with pixiv.net

A pixiv.net account password to use with --pixiv-username

Purge cached Pixiv credentials to initiate a new session and reauthenticate.

Select a co-host stream instead of the owner stream.

Automatically mux available subtitles in to the output stream.

Automatically mux available subtitles in to the output stream.

Channel ID to play.

Example:

streamlink http://play.sbs.co.kr/onair/pc/index.html best --sbscokr-id S01



The email associated with your Schoolism account, required to access any Schoolism stream.

A Schoolism account password to use with --schoolism-email.

Play part number PART of the lesson, or assignment feedback video.

Defaults is 1.


A Steam account email address to access friends/private streams

A Steam account password to use with --steam-email.

The email address used to register with tvplayer.com.

The password for your tvplayer.com account.

An OAuth token to use for Twitch authentication. Use --twitch-oauth-authenticate to create a token.

Twitch cookies to authenticate to allow access to subscription channels.

Example:

"_twitch_session_id=xxxxxx; persistent=xxxxx"


NOTE:

This method is the old and clunky way of authenticating with Twitch, using --twitch-oauth-authenticate is the recommended and simpler way of doing it now.



Do not open the stream if the target channel is hosting another channel.

A password to access password protected UStream.tv channels.

Your USTV Now account username

Your USTV Now account password

USTV Now station code

The email associated with your WWE Network account, required to access any WWE Network stream.

A WWE Network account password to use with --wwenetwork-email.

Your YuppTV account email

Your YuppTV account password.

The email associated with your zattoo account, required to access any zattoo stream.

A zattoo account password to use with --zattoo-email.

Purge cached zattoo credentials to initiate a new session and reauthenticate.

A comma-delimited list of stream types which should be used, the following types are allowed:
  • dash
  • hls
  • hls5

Default is: "hls".


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