macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install streamlinklocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install streamlinkMacPorts ports tree · multimedia/streamlink/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew
Install streamlink with Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget, zypper
CLI for extracting streams from various websites to a video player. Version 8.4.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-20.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add streamlinkAlpine Linux edge package indexes · streamlink · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install python3-streamlinkDebian stable package indexes · python3-streamlink · source: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install python3-streamlinkFedora Rawhide package metadata · python3-streamlink · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#streamlinknixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/st/streamlink/package.nix · source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S streamlinkArch Linux sync databases · streamlink · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install streamlinkopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · streamlink · source: download.opensuse.org
Windows
Chocolateyverified · 92%
choco install streamlinkChocolatey community package catalog · streamlink · source: community.chocolatey.org
Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install extras/streamlinkScoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/streamlink.json · source: api.github.com
Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id Streamlink.Streamlink -eWindows Package Manager source index · Streamlink.Streamlink · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com
overview
Package summary
CLI for extracting streams from various websites to a video player
Project links
Commands and aliases
- streamlink
history
Project history and usage
Streamlink is a command-line media utility that extracts streams from supported sites and pipes them into a local video player. It became the maintained successor path for Livestreamer users and is widely packaged for desktop and Unix-like systems.
Project history
The official documentation states that Streamlink was forked from Livestreamer, which was no longer maintained. The changelog records Streamlink 0.0.1 on September 23, 2016 as the first release from that initial fork.
Early releases focused on stabilizing the fork, updating the documentation site, fixing provider plugins, and shipping Windows binaries. The 1.0.0 release followed on January 30, 2019, and the changelog continues to track frequent plugin, protocol, and platform maintenance.
Adoption history
Streamlink's adoption comes from a practical CLI niche: avoiding heavy web playback pages while still watching streams in VLC, mpv, or another local player. The official overview emphasizes a plugin system for supporting streaming services.
The supplied source facts list packages for Homebrew, Chocolatey, Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Scoop, winget, and openSUSE, showing unusually broad cross-platform package-manager coverage for a Python media CLI.
How it is used
The official quickstart shows streamlink twitch.tv/CHANNEL best, after which Streamlink finds a matching plugin, lists available qualities, and opens the selected stream in VLC by default.
The CLI documentation covers config files, plugin-specific configs, stream selection, player options, HTTP options, plugin options, and scripting-oriented JSON output.
Why package nerds care
Streamlink matters to package nerds because it is a constantly maintained packaging surface around fragile streaming-site integrations. Package freshness directly affects whether a user's stream command works when a site changes.
It is also a good example of a Python CLI distributed like a native media utility: package managers handle Python, entry points, optional players, and OS-specific config paths so users can keep the workflow as one shell command.
Timeline
- 2016-09-23: Streamlink 0.0.1, first release from the Livestreamer fork.
- 2016-10-12: Streamlink 0.0.2 updates documentation, CI, Windows builds, and provider fixes.
- 2019-01-30: Streamlink 1.0.0 released.
- 2021-06-19: Streamlink 2.2.0 changes default config file paths on macOS and Windows.
- 2026-05-06: Streamlink 8.4.0 appears as latest release in the official documentation opened for this batch.
Related projects
- Livestreamer is the direct predecessor named by the official docs.
- VLC and mpv are common playback targets named in Streamlink's overview, while the plugin system connects the CLI to services such as Twitch and YouTube.
Sources
- https://streamlink.github.io/
- https://streamlink.github.io/changelog.html
- https://streamlink.github.io/cli.html
- source_facts.package-manager
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for streamlink. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 3 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Linux
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-${HOME}/.config}/streamlink/config- macOS
${HOME}/Library/Application Support/streamlink/config- Windows
%APPDATA%\streamlink\config
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
streamlink | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version8.4.0
manager updated2026-06-20
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://streamlink.github.io/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:streamlink |
|---|---|
| Version | 8.4.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/streamlink |
| Homepage | https://streamlink.github.io/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink |
| Upstream docs | https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink#readme |
| License | BSD-2-Clause |
| Source archive | https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/69/38/0280b3acf43243090ee6bf8cbbd87147370d4af4e6c864114d8bd7ba28e6/streamlink-8.4.0.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-06-20T22:06:02+02:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | certifi, libxml2, python@3.14 |
| Build dependencies | pkgconf |
| Uses from macOS | libffi, libxslt |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | streamlink |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 1 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
python3-streamlink 7.3.0-2
Python module for extracting video streams from various websites
sudo apt install python3-streamlink- Section: python
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: streamlink
- 15 dependencies
- 5 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
Debian apt95%
python3-streamlink-doc 7.3.0-2
CLI for extracting video streams from various websites (documentation)
sudo apt install python3-streamlink-doc- Section: doc
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: streamlink
- 2 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
Debian apt95%
streamlink 7.3.0-2
CLI for extracting video streams from various websites to a video player
sudo apt install streamlink- Section: video
- Architecture: all
- 2 dependencies
- 3 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
Nix95%
streamlink
nix profile install nixpkgs#streamlink- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
Ubuntu apt95%
python3-streamlink 6.6.2-1
Python module for extracting video streams from various websites
sudo apt install python3-streamlink- Section: universe/python
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: streamlink
- 13 dependencies
- 3 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
Ubuntu apt95%
python3-streamlink-doc 6.6.2-1
CLI for extracting video streams from various websites (documentation)
sudo apt install python3-streamlink-doc- Section: universe/doc
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: streamlink
- 2 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
Ubuntu apt95%
streamlink 6.6.2-1
CLI for extracting video streams from various websites to a video player
sudo apt install streamlink- Section: universe/video
- Architecture: all
- 2 dependencies
- 3 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
apk95%
streamlink 8.4.0-r0
CLI for extracting streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing
sudo apk add streamlink- License: BSD-2-Clause
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: streamlink
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
apk95%
streamlink-bash-completion 8.4.0-r0
Bash completions for streamlink
sudo apk add streamlink-bash-completion- License: BSD-2-Clause
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: streamlink
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
apk95%
streamlink-doc 8.4.0-r0
CLI for extracting streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing (documentation)
sudo apk add streamlink-doc- License: BSD-2-Clause
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: streamlink
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
apk95%
streamlink-pyc 8.4.0-r0
Precompiled Python bytecode for streamlink
sudo apk add streamlink-pyc- License: BSD-2-Clause
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: streamlink
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
apk95%
streamlink-zsh-completion 8.4.0-r0
Zsh completions for streamlink
sudo apk add streamlink-zsh-completion- License: BSD-2-Clause
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: streamlink
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
dnf95%
python3-streamlink 8.2.1-2.fc45
Python library for extracting streams from various websites
sudo dnf install python3-streamlink- License: BSD-2-Clause AND Apache-2.0
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: python-streamlink
- 3 dependencies
- 7 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
pacman95%
streamlink 8.4.0-1
CLI program that launches streams from various streaming services in a custom video player (livestreamer fork)
sudo pacman -S streamlink- License: BSD
- Architecture: any
- 10 dependencies
- 2 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
zypper95%
streamlink 8.4.0-1.1
Program to pipe streams from services into a video player
sudo zypper install streamlink- License: Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: streamlink
- 13 dependencies
- 3 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
MacPorts95%
streamlink
sudo port install streamlink- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Streamlink
source trail
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Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment