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Danmaku projects on GitHub
Bullet-comment overlays that scroll viewer comments across video players.
As of , the most-starred Danmaku projects on GitHub are Kazumi (37.3K stars), downkyi (24.4K stars) and GSYVideoPlayer (21.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 16 Danmaku repositories with 221.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Kazumi, with +358 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16
+358Kazumi
Predidit/Kazumi · ★ 37.3KKazumi is a free, open-source app for discovering and streaming anime online. It does not hardcode websites: sources come from custom rules you write or import — up to five XPath selector lines each.
+38PiliPlus
bggRGjQaUbCoE/PiliPlus · ★ 19.5KPiliPlus is a free, open-source third-party client for Bilibili, the Chinese video platform, built with Flutter — an alternative app for browsing videos, anime and live streams with more features than the official app.
+31tvbox
qist/tvbox · ★ 12KA personal collection of TVBox/OK影视/猫影视(CatVod) configuration files (JSON) that point Android/TV streaming apps to video-on-demand, live TV, and cloud-drive sources — it is not a standalone app itself.
+27animeko
open-ani/animeko · ★ 21KAnimeko (formerly Ani) is a one-stop app for finding, following and watching seasonal anime: Bangumi cloud sync of watch progress, aggregated video sources, danmaku comments and offline caching, built 100% in Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform.
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16 projects · by stars
- 37.3K
#1 · Predidit/KazumiKazumi
Kazumi is a free, open-source app for discovering and streaming anime online. It does not hardcode websites: sources come from custom rules you write or import — up to five XPath selector lines each.
- 24.4K
#2 · leiurayer/downkyidownkyi
Downkyi (下载姬) was a desktop GUI tool for downloading videos, subtitles, and danmaku from the Chinese video platform Bilibili (B站) by reverse-engineering its private APIs and bypassing login authentication and anti-scraping protections. The repository has since been permanently shut down and is no longer maintained.
- 21.5K
#3 · CarGuo/GSYVideoPlayerGSYVideoPlayer
GSYVideoPlayer is an open-source Android video player library that wraps several playback kernels — IJKPlayer, Media3 (ExoPlayer2), MediaPlayer and AliPlayer — behind one API, with caching, danmaku, subtitles, filters and ad support built in.
- 4

animeko
21Kopen-ani/animeko · KotlinAnimeko (formerly Ani) is a one-stop app for finding, following and watching seasonal anime: Bangumi cloud sync of watch progress, aggregated video sources, danmaku comments and offline caching, built 100% in Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform.
- 5

PiliPlus
19.5KbggRGjQaUbCoE/PiliPlus · DartPiliPlus is a free, open-source third-party client for Bilibili, the Chinese video platform, built with Flutter — an alternative app for browsing videos, anime and live streams with more features than the official app.
- 6

BBLL
17.5Kxiaye13579/BBLLBBLL is a third-party Bilibili client for Android TV, built by an individual developer for learning and communication. It is not a hack of the official app: it simply wraps Bilibili's existing APIs to bring Bilibili videos and live streams to the big screen.
- 7

DPlayer
16.5KDIYgod/DPlayer · JavaScriptDPlayer is an open-source HTML5 video player with built-in danmaku — scrolling bullet comments — made to help people build video and danmaku into websites easily.
- 8

dart_simple_live
16.1Kxiaoyaocz/dart_simple_live · DartSimple Live is a cross-platform Flutter app for watching Chinese livestreaming platforms (Huya, Douyu, Bilibili Live, Douyin) with danmaku (chat overlay) support, built for simple, no-frills viewing.
- 9

pilipala
13.8Kguozhigq/pilipala · DartPiliPala is an unofficial third-party client for the Chinese video platform Bilibili, built with Flutter. It lets you browse, watch and interact with Bilibili videos, live streams and anime from your phone outside the official app.
- 10

tvbox
12Kqist/tvbox · JavaScriptA personal collection of TVBox/OK影视/猫影视(CatVod) configuration files (JSON) that point Android/TV streaming apps to video-on-demand, live TV, and cloud-drive sources — it is not a standalone app itself.
- 11

PipePipe
7KInfinityLoop1308/PipePipe · ShellPipePipe is a free Android app for browsing YouTube and similar services (like BiliBili and NicoNico) without ads or tracking, built as a feature-packed fork of NewPipe.
- 12

JKVideo
5Ktiajinsha/JKVideo · TypeScriptJKVideo is a slick third-party Bilibili client built with React Native, offering DASH video playback, real-time danmaku, WBI request signing and live streaming support.
- 13

BiliPai
4.9Kjay3-yy/BiliPai · KotlinBiliPai is a third-party, native Android client for Bilibili that covers video playback, anime (bangumi), live streaming, moments, messages, offline downloads, and a plugin system, built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
- 14

KVideo
4.2KKuekHaoYang/KVideo · TypeScriptKVideo is a self-hosted video aggregation and streaming platform built with Next.js 16, featuring a 'Liquid Glass' glassmorphism UI, parallel multi-source search, IPTV live TV, and a danmaku comment overlay.
- 15

AinanPlayer
329Ainanya21/AinanPlayerA native Windows media aggregation and streaming client: it pulls film and TV streams from TVBox/CatVod-style sources and plays them with 4K hardware acceleration in a WinUI 3 Fluent interface.
- 16
StarLive
168SMNETSTUDIO/StarLive · TypeScriptStarLive is a self-hosted live-streaming and interaction platform: it handles the video stream, real-time danmaku/gifts/red-packets/lottery, moderation, and a built-in StarCoin virtual-currency economy. It's a rewrite of the legacy LDLive, moving from serverless HTTP polling to a standalone NestJS backend with persistent Socket.IO connections.
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