Welcome to python-twitch-stream’s documentation!

Python-twitch-stream is a simple lightweight library, which you can use to send your python video to twitch and react with the chat in real time. Its main features are:

  • Supports sending of audio and video in a thread safe way to your twitch channel.
  • Allows to interact with the chat of your channel by sending chat messages and reading what other users post.

There is a complete tutorial available at Tutorial.

Installation

In short, you can install the latest stable version over pip.

pip install python-twitch-stream

Make sure to also install a recent ffmpeg version:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

The ffmpeg library needs to be very recent (written in october 2015). There are plenty of bugs when running a stream using older versions of ffmpeg or avconv, including but not limited to 6GB of memory use, problems with the audio and synchronization of the audio and the video.

Or alternatively, install the latest python-twitch-stream development version via:

pip install git+https://github.com/317070/python-twitch-stream

Support

For support, please use the github issues on the repository.