StartLive

Bypass the requirement to use Bilibili’s official "LiveHime" client to start streaming.

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Disclaimer

• This software is open-sourced under the GNU General Public License 3.0.
• The software logo is not licensed under GPL-3.0. All rights are reserved by the artist 花漫酱 and the software developer. You may not claim GPL-3.0 authorization to use the logo without permission, nor use it for any commercial purpose without authorization.

Install

Download via Releases

Download link: Click here to download

Install via Windows Package Manager (winget)

winget install Radekyspec.StartLive

Install via AUR (Arch Linux/Manjaro)

Install startlive-git using an AUR helper (e.g. paru, yay, pikaur).

paru -S startlive-git

Screenshots

How to Use

Open the step-by-step guide (Tencent Docs)

Run from Source / Development

Prerequisites

• 3.11 <= Python <= 3.13
• Tested on Python 3.13.7; Python 3.12.10 recommended
• Desktop environment
• PySide6 (Qt for Python) supported platforms/architectures
• A keyring backend supported by the keyring package
  • On Windows: typically the built-in Windows Credential Locker
  • On macOS: typically the system Keychain

Install & Run

Note

Only CPython official python (available on Python.org) and pip are tested and recommended.

If you encounter issues when installing dependencies, make sure to use the correct package manager first.

Create a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv

• Windows:

.\venv\Script\pip.exe install -r .\requirements.txt
.\venv\Script\python.exe .\StartLive.py

• macOS / Linux:

./venv/bin/pip install -r ./requirements.txt
./venv/bin/python ./StartLive.py

Note: Bilibili does not enable HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) streaming for all users. If pushing the stream fails, please check your encoder/codec settings.