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A terminal tool for browsing/streaming on Twitch.tv.

Project description

Twitchy-Term

A simple terminal tool for browsing Twitch.tv and watching streams on VLC Player using Livestreamer.

http://i.imgur.com/G0WCCUj.png

Dependencies

  • Python 3 (tested on version 3.4)

  • Livestreamer

  • VLC Player (sudo apt-get install vlc)

Installation

Using pip:

$ sudo pip3 install twitchy-term

OR

Clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/Andy-Au/twitchy-term.git
$ cd twitchy-term
$ sudo python3 setup.py install

Usage

Simply run:

$ twitchy-term

It also takes an optional argument for streaming quality (default is best):

$ twitchy-term -q [quality]

Available qualities include:

  • best

  • high

  • medium

  • low

  • worst

Twitchy-Term offers the following pages of Twitch.tv:

  • Featured streams (from Twitch.tv’s home page)

  • Browse top games (and top streams of each)

  • Search

Commands

/:

Scroll up and down the current list of items

f:

Featured streams

g:

Top Games list

s:

Search

c:

Change stream quality

q:

Quit

In Top Games list

e:

View top streams of current selected game

In pages where streams are listed

p:

Play the selected stream in VLC player with current quality

License

Please see LICENSE.

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