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

• Use a specific player to feed stream data to (VLC is used by default if found):

streamlink --player=mpv example.com/stream best

• Skip a specific amount of time 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