A tiny wrapper for livestreamer to watch twitch streams

twitch

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import os

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
  print("Usage: %s [stream_name | http://stream_url]" % sys.argv[0])
  sys.exit(2)

stream_url = sys.argv[1]
if not stream_url.startswith('http://') and not stream_url.startswith('https://'):
  stream_url = 'http://twitch.tv/%s' % stream_url

print('Running stream: %s' % stream_url)
app = 'livestreamer'
os.execvp(app, [app, stream_url, 'best'] + sys.argv[2:])

Usage:

$ twitch amazhs
Running stream: http://twitch.tv/amazhs
[cli][info] Found matching plugin twitch for URL http://twitch.tv/amazhs
[cli][info] Available streams: audio, high, low, medium, mobile (worst), source (best)
[cli][info] Opening stream: source (hls)
[cli][info] Starting player: mpv -cache 8192

https://github.com/MOZGIII/twitchwatcher