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Streaming projects on GitHub
Real-time data and media streaming, from event pipelines to video delivery.
As of , the most-starred Streaming projects on GitHub are iptv (141.1K stars), obs-studio (77.7K stars) and FFmpeg (65.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 273 Streaming repositories with 4.2M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was LibreTV, with +620 stars in a day.
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+620LibreTV
LibreSpark/LibreTV · ★ 18.8KLibreTV is a self-hosted web app that searches and plays videos aggregated from third-party streaming source sites, plus live TV/IPTV via M3U playlists. It's built on Next.js 15 (App Router), TypeScript and Tailwind CSS, using ArtPlayer + hls.js as the player.
+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.
+212openui
thesysdev/openui · ★ 11.4KOpenUI is an open standard and framework for Generative UI: it defines a compact, streaming-first language (OpenUI Lang) that lets LLMs generate structured, renderable UI instead of plain text or JSON, with runtimes for React, Vue, Svelte, and Angular.
+145hongguo-desktop-releases
waligoraamodio288-rgb/hongguo-desktop-releases · ★ 3.8KThis is the Windows desktop client for 'Hongguo' (红果), a short-drama (duanju) player app. It lets you browse, search and watch short drama series on a PC with local favorites and resume-watching, without needing an Android emulator.
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- 141.1K
#1 · iptv-org/iptviptv
A collection of publicly available IPTV channel playlists (M3U) gathered from all over the world.
- 77.7K
#2 · obsproject/obs-studioobs-studio
OBS Studio is a free, open-source application for capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video content, mainly aimed at live streaming and screen recording.
- 65.3K
#3 · FFmpeg/FFmpegFFmpeg
FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and command-line tools to process multimedia: decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play audio and video.
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pathway
62.1Kpathwaycom/pathway · PythonPathway is a Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG, with the same code usable for batch jobs, CI/CD tests, and live data streams.
- 5
jellyfin
58.1Kjellyfin/jellyfin · C#Jellyfin is a free, open-source media server backend that lets you organize and stream your own movies, shows, and music to apps on other devices, similar to Plex or Emby but with no premium tiers.
- 6

you-get
56.9Ksoimort/you-get · PythonYou-Get is a tiny command-line utility that downloads media contents — videos, audios and images — from the web, for when there is no other handy way to save them.
- 7

VibeVoice
54.9Kmicrosoft/VibeVoice · PythonVibeVoice is Microsoft's family of open-source voice AI models covering text-to-speech and speech recognition: long-form multi-speaker TTS, real-time streaming TTS, and ASR built for hour-long recordings.
- 8

requests
54.5Kpsf/requests · PythonIt is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library for Python that lets you send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily.
- 9

spotube
50Kteam-spotube/spotube · DartSpotube is an open-source, cross-platform music streaming app for desktop and mobile that lets you bring your own music metadata, playlists, and audio sources through plugins instead of relying on one locked-in backend.
- 10
RxJava
48.2KReactiveX/RxJava · JavaRxJava is a Java library (Reactive Extensions for the JVM) for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences.
- 11

spark
44.2Kapache/spark · ScalaApache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing, offering high-level APIs in Scala, Java, Python, and R on top of an optimized execution engine.
- 12
langgraph
43.4Klangchain-ai/langgraph · PythonLangGraph is a low-level orchestration framework for building, managing, and deploying long-running, stateful AI agents — workflows where an agent keeps state across steps, failures, and even sessions.
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Sunshine
42.3KLizardByte/Sunshine · C++Sunshine is a self-hosted game streaming host that lets you play PC games remotely using any Moonlight client, with hardware-accelerated encoding on AMD, Intel, or Nvidia GPUs (or software encoding as a fallback).
- 14

NewPipe
40.2KTeamNewPipe/NewPipe · JavaNewPipe is a free, lightweight streaming front-end for Android: one open-source app for watching videos and listening to audio from YouTube, PeerTube, Bandcamp, SoundCloud and media.ccc.de.
- 15
polars
40.1Kpola-rs/polars · RustPolars is an extremely fast analytical query engine for DataFrames, written in Rust and designed to be fast, easy to use and expressive.
- 16

video.js
40Kvideojs/video.js · TypeScriptVideo.js is a free, open source video player for all web-based platforms: a full-featured HTML5 player that also works as a framework (v10) for building players in HTML and React.
- 17
ChatTTS
39.9K2noise/ChatTTS · PythonChatTTS is an open-source text-to-speech model built for conversational speech — the natural-sounding voice layer for things like LLM assistants — speaking English and Chinese.
- 18

everyone-can-use-english
39KZuodaoTech/everyone-can-use-english · TypeScriptEnjoy is an AI-powered learning companion built around the idea that AI is the best foreign-language teacher and Enjoy is its best teaching assistant. It's the software side of the long-running 'everyone-can-use-english' (人人都能用英语) project, which also includes two companion books on learning methodology.
- 19

Kazumi
37.3KPredidit/Kazumi · DartKazumi 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.
- 20

mediapipe
37.3Kgoogle-ai-edge/mediapipe · C++Google's open-source, cross-platform toolkit for on-device machine learning in live and streaming media: ready-made libraries and pre-trained models you plug straight into your own app.
- 21

SmartTube
35.1Kyuliskov/SmartTube · JavaSmartTube is a free, open-source media client for Android TVs and TV boxes that lets you browse and play content (mainly YouTube) in a TV-optimized interface, without needing Google Services.
- 22
BetterDisplay
34.1Kwaydabber/BetterDisplayBetterDisplay is a macOS menu bar app that unlocks extra display controls on your Mac, including flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR brightness boosts, DDC and HDMI-CEC hardware control, virtual screens, and picture-in-picture streaming.
- 23
kafka
34Kapache/kafka · JavaApache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
- 24
remix
33.4Kremix-run/remix · TypeScriptRemix 3 is a full-stack web framework built directly on Web APIs (Streams, Fetch, Web Crypto) rather than bundler-specific abstractions, distributed as one umbrella 'remix' package made of many standalone JS/TS tools.
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fish-speech
33.2Kfishaudio/fish-speech · PythonFish Speech (Fish Audio S2) is a state-of-the-art open-source text-to-speech system that generates natural, emotionally rich speech in 80+ languages, led by the flagship S2-Pro model that combines a Dual-AR architecture with reinforcement-learning alignment.
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ijkplayer
33.2Kbilibili/ijkplayer · Cijkplayer is Bilibili's open-source video player library for Android and iOS, built on FFmpeg (n3.4) and ffplay, with hardware decoding via MediaCodec and VideoToolbox.
- 27

gulp
32.9Kgulpjs/gulp · JavaScriptgulp is a JavaScript toolkit that automates repetitive or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow by piping files through a chain of streaming transformations.
- 28

my-tv
32Klizongying/my-tv · CMy TV (我的电视) is a live TV streaming app for Android TV boxes — it is ready to use right after you install it, no extra configuration needed.
- 29

openai-python
31.9Kopenai/openai-python · PythonThis is the official Python library for the OpenAI API, giving convenient programmatic access to OpenAI models like GPT for text, vision, audio and more.
- 30

rxjs
31.7KReactiveX/rxjs · TypeScriptRxJS is a JavaScript library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs with Observable values. This repo is the platform-based next generation of RxJS, planned for release as RxJS 9.
- 31

webtorrent
31.4Kwebtorrent/webtorrent · JavaScriptA streaming torrent client written entirely in JavaScript that runs in node.js and the browser — in the browser it moves data over WebRTC data channels, with no plugins, extensions, or installs.
- 32

DeepFaceLive
31Kiperov/DeepFaceLive · PythonDeepFaceLive is a Windows desktop app for real-time face swap: it replaces the face from your webcam — or the face in a video — with a trained face model, aimed at PC streaming and video calls.
- 33

Tvlist-awesome-m3u-m3u8
30.2KimDazui/Tvlist-awesome-m3u-m3u8A curated Chinese awesome-list of IPTV live-stream sources: dated .m3u/.m3u8 playlists for CCTV, provincial Chinese channels and feeds worldwide, plus links to tools, player plugins and video tutorials.
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plyr
30Ksampotts/plyr · JavaScriptPlyr is a simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player that supports modern browsers.
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srs
29.3Kossrs/srs · C++SRS (Simple Realtime Server) is a simple, high-performance, AI-driven real-time media server for live streaming: RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181, with codecs from H.264 to AV1, VP9, AAC, Opus, and G.711.
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live
28.6Kfanmingming/live · JavaScriptA free, fully open-source library of TV and radio channel logos plus related tools (EPG, m3u converters, an M3U8 web player), hosted for direct access over IPv4 and IPv6.
- 37

Unlimited-OCR
27.7Kbaidu/Unlimited-OCR · PythonIt's an open-source OCR model from Baidu built for one-shot parsing of long documents — the team positions it as pushing Deepseek-OCR one step further, with an arXiv paper backing the approach.
- 38

awesome-piracy
26.9KIgglybuff/awesome-piracy · HTMLA curated list of piracy and warez links — VPNs, torrent trackers, streaming sites, Plex and Kodi tools, ebooks and much more — built from the author's years of saved bookmarks, Reddit posts and GitHub stars.
- 39

flink
26.4Kapache/flink · JavaApache Flink is an open source stream processing framework with powerful stream- and batch-processing capabilities, running your programs on its own distributed runtime.
- 40
A2A
26.2Ka2aproject/A2A · ShellThe Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol is an open standard that lets gen AI agents built on different frameworks and run by different companies talk to each other — discovering capabilities, negotiating how to interact, and collaborating on long-running tasks as agents, not just as tools.
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iptv-api
25.6KGuovin/iptv-api · PythonAn IPTV source auto-update tool: it collects live stream links from multiple sources, checks availability, speed-tests them and outputs playable M3U/TXT playlists or an API endpoint you can import into any player.
- 42

yfinance
25.5Kranaroussi/yfinance · Pythonyfinance is a Python library that downloads financial and market data from Yahoo! Finance's API - stock quotes, live streaming, search and screener queries - straight from your Python code.
- 43
invidious
25.5Kiv-org/invidious · CrystalInvidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube: you browse and watch YouTube videos through its web interface instead of youtube.com.
- 44

request
25.5Krequest/request · JavaScriptRequest is a simplified HTTP client for Node.js, built to make HTTP calls as simply as possible. It supports HTTPS and follows redirects by default.
- 45

howler.js
25.4Kgoldfire/howler.js · JavaScripthowler.js is a JavaScript audio library for the web that gives you one consistent API for playing and controlling sound, defaulting to the Web Audio API and falling back to HTML5 Audio automatically.
- 46

TVAPP
25.2Kyouhunwl/TVAPP · JavaScriptThis is a huge curated collection of Android TV box apps — video/movie players, live TV, karaoke, games and utility tools — bundled with download links, version info, status flags and TVBox/影视仓-style interface source URLs to configure them.
- 47

nextai-translator
25Knextai-translator/nextai-translator · TypeScriptA ChatGPT API-powered translator that runs as a browser extension and a cross-platform desktop application.
- 48

winston
24.5Kwinstonjs/winston · JavaScriptWinston is a logging library for Node.js that lets you send log messages to multiple destinations at once, like the console, a file, or a database.
- 49

navidrome
24.2Knavidrome/navidrome · GoNavidrome is an open-source web-based music collection server and streamer that you self-host — it serves your own library to any browser or mobile device, like your personal Spotify.
- 50
CosyVoice
24KQwenAudio/CosyVoice · PythonCosyVoice is Alibaba's open-source, LLM-based text-to-speech system. It generates natural speech in 9 languages plus 18+ Chinese dialects, supports zero-shot voice cloning, and ships inference, training and deployment code.
- 51

ddia
23.8KVonng/ddia · PythonA free Chinese translation of Martin Kleppmann's 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications' (DDIA), covering both the 1st and the complete 2nd edition; 210 contributors have polished it since 2018.
- 52

guzzle
23.4Kguzzle/guzzle · PHPGuzzle is an extensible PHP HTTP client library that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services.
- 53

flv.js
23.2Kbilibili/flv.js · JavaScriptflv.js is an HTML5 FLV (Flash Video) player written in pure JavaScript, with no Flash plugin required.
- 54

courses
22.9Kanthropics/courses · Jupyter NotebookAnthropic's official set of educational courses on working with Claude: five hands-on courses covering API essentials, prompt engineering, real world prompting, prompt evaluations, and tool use.
- 55

rocketmq
22.6Kapache/rocketmq · JavaApache RocketMQ is an open-source distributed messaging and streaming platform for building event-driven applications, with low latency, trillion-level capacity and flexible scalability.
- 56

neko
22.5Km1k1o/neko · GoNeko is a self-hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker and streams its screen to viewers over WebRTC, so several people can browse and interact together in real time.
- 57

cat-catch
22.3Kxifangczy/cat-catch · JavaScriptcat-catch ('Cat Catch') is a browser extension that sniffs out the resources a page loads, filters them into a list, and helps you download media such as m3u8 video streams.
- 58

swarm
22.1Kopenai/swarm · PythonSwarm is an experimental, educational framework from OpenAI's Solutions team for lightweight multi-agent orchestration, built around two primitives: Agents and handoffs.
- 59
datasets
22.1Khuggingface/datasets · PythonA lightweight Python library from Hugging Face that gives one-line dataloaders for a huge catalog of ready-to-use public datasets on the HF Hub, plus fast, reproducible preprocessing for Hub and local data.
- 60

ExoPlayer
21.9Kgoogle/ExoPlayer · JavaExoPlayer was Google's open-source media player library for Android. This GitHub repository is deprecated and stale — all development has moved to AndroidX Media3.
- 61

serve
21.9Kjina-ai/serve · PythonJina is an open-source Python framework for building multimodal AI applications on a cloud-native stack — you wrap models into gRPC microservices, chain them into flows, and scale from local to cloud.
- 62

deskreen
21.6Kpavlobu/deskreen · TypeScriptDeskreen turns any device with a web browser — a phone, tablet or laptop — into a second screen for your computer. It is an Electron app that streams your screen live over WebRTC.
- 63

GSYVideoPlayer
21.5KCarGuo/GSYVideoPlayer · JavaGSYVideoPlayer 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.
- 64

livekit
21.5Klivekit/livekit · GoLiveKit is an open-source realtime platform for voice, video, and physical AI. This repo is its server: a scalable, distributed WebRTC SFU that routes audio, video, and data between people, devices, and AI models in shared rooms.
- 65

xbmc
21.3Kxbmc/xbmc · C++Kodi is a free and open source media player and entertainment hub: one app that organizes and plays your movies, music, and photos, built to turn any computer into a home theater.
- 66
IPTV
21.2KFree-TV/IPTV · PythonA community-maintained M3U playlist of free-to-watch live TV channels from around the world — local over-the-air feeds plus free internet services. You load it into any IPTV player.
- 67
excelize
21Kqax-os/excelize · GoExcelize is a library written in pure Go for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files in the XLAM, XLSM, XLSX, XLTM and XLTX formats.
- 68

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.
- 69
FunASR
20.7Kmodelscope/FunASR · PythonFunASR is an open-source industrial speech recognition toolkit covering ASR, VAD, punctuation, speaker diarization, and emotion/audio-event models, deployable offline, in streaming mode, on edge devices, or behind an OpenAI-compatible API.
- 70

res-downloader
20.7Kputyy/res-downloader · GoA free cross-platform desktop app that sniffs and downloads videos, audio, images, m3u8 streams and live streams from Chinese platforms like WeChat Video, Douyin, Kuaishou, Xiaohongshu, Kugou and QQ Music.
- 71
bokeh
20.5Kbokeh/bokeh · TypeScriptBokeh is a Python library for building interactive visualizations that run in modern web browsers: plots, dashboards, and data applications, with high-performance interactivity over large or streaming datasets.
- 72

mediamtx
20.4Kbluenviron/mediamtx · GoMediaMTX is a ready-to-use, zero-dependency live media server and media proxy: it publishes, reads, proxies, records and plays back real-time video and audio streams.
- 73

vlc
20.1Kvideolan/vlc · CVLC is a free, open-source media player and multimedia engine that plays nearly every audio and video format, plus discs, streams and capture devices, on almost every platform.
- 74

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.
- 75

web-llm
19.3Kmlc-ai/web-llm · TypeScriptWebLLM runs large language models directly in the browser, accelerated by WebGPU — no server involved. It exposes the OpenAI API, so standard OpenAI-style code works against open models running locally.
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moonlight-qt
19.1Kmoonlight-stream/moonlight-qt · C++An open source client that streams games from your own PC to another screen using NVIDIA GameStream or Sunshine, with hardware-accelerated video and gamepad support.
- 77

hermes-webui
19Knesquena/hermes-webui · PythonHermes WebUI is a lightweight, dark-themed web interface for Hermes Agent, a self-hosted autonomous agent that remembers across sessions. It gives you full CLI parity in the browser, on your computer or phone.
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iii
18.8Kiii-hq/iii · Rustiii is a real-time engine for your backend stack: queues, cron, HTTP, state, observability, agents, and sandboxes are collapsed into one live system surface where every service is composable and observable.
- 79

LibreTV
18.8KLibreSpark/LibreTV · TypeScriptLibreTV is a self-hosted web app that searches and plays videos aggregated from third-party streaming source sites, plus live TV/IPTV via M3U playlists. It's built on Next.js 15 (App Router), TypeScript and Tailwind CSS, using ArtPlayer + hls.js as the player.
- 80

nuclear
18.7Knukeop/nuclear · TypeScriptNuclear is a free, open-source desktop music player that finds free music for you: search for any song or artist, stream it, and build playlists.
- 81

json-render
18.7Kvercel-labs/json-render · TypeScriptjson-render is a Generative UI framework: AI generates interfaces from natural language prompts, but output is constrained to a catalog of components you define, so you keep reliability and predictability while letting AI drive the UI.
- 82

mysql
18.6Kmysqljs/mysql · JavaScriptA pure Node.js driver for MySQL that implements the MySQL protocol directly in JavaScript, with no native bindings to compile.
- 83

Speech
18.6KNVIDIA-NeMo/Speech · PythonAn open-source NVIDIA framework for building speech AI models — automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and speech LLMs — with pre-trained checkpoints you can customize and deploy.
- 84

gemini-fullstack-langgraph-quickstart
18.3Kgoogle-gemini/gemini-fullstack-langgraph-quickstart · Jupyter NotebookGoogle's fullstack quickstart for building research agents: a React frontend over a LangGraph backend powered by Gemini, which searches the web, reflects on gaps and returns answers with citations.
- 85

gitdiagram
18.3Kahmedkhaleel2004/gitdiagram · TypeScriptGitDiagram turns any public or private GitHub repository into an interactive architecture diagram in seconds. You can also replace 'hub' with 'diagram' in any GitHub URL to open its diagram.
- 86

lingbot-map
18.1KRobbyant/lingbot-map · PythonLingBot-Map is a feed-forward 3D foundation model for streaming 3D reconstruction, built around a Geometric Context Transformer that was a ECCV 2026 Best Paper Award candidate.
- 87

ffmpeg.wasm
17.9Kffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm · Cffmpeg.wasm is a pure WebAssembly/JavaScript port of FFmpeg that runs directly inside the browser, letting you record, convert, and stream audio and video without a server.
- 88
asciinema
17.9Kasciinema/asciinema · RustIt's a command-line tool for recording and live-streaming terminal sessions. Instead of heavyweight video, it saves lightweight asciicast (.cast) files you can replay in a terminal, embed on a web page, or publish to asciinema.org.
- 89

ZLMediaKit
17.6KZLMediaKit/ZLMediaKit · C++A high-performance, production-grade streaming media server framework written in C++11: it takes in live streams and serves them across many protocols, converting between them on the fly.
- 90

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.
- 91

UnblockNeteaseMusic
17.3Knondanee/UnblockNeteaseMusic · JavaScriptUnblockNeteaseMusic revives greyed-out, unavailable songs in Netease Cloud Music: it swaps dead song links for playable ones taken from other sources such as QQ Music, Kuwo and Migu.
- 92

koel
17.3Kkoel/koel · PHPKoel is a free, open-source music streaming server that turns your personal music collection into a sleek, web-based listening experience — think a private, self-hosted Spotify.
- 93
hls.js
17Kvideo-dev/hls.js · TypeScriptA JavaScript library that plays HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) video directly in the browser. It relies on HTML5 video and Media Source Extensions, transmuxing MPEG-2 TS and AAC/MP3 streams into MP4 fragments asynchronously in a Web Worker.
- 94

clashfree
16.9Kfree-nodes/clashfreeThis is a daily-updated collection of free Clash proxy node subscription links, scraped from the internet, for accessing blocked websites (GFW circumvention) from China.
- 95

webrtc
16.8Kpion/webrtc · GoA pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API: Go programs can exchange real-time audio, video and data with browsers and other peers, with no Cgo and no native WebRTC libraries.
- 96

emqx
16.8Kemqx/emqx · ErlangEMQX is an MQTT broker and messaging platform for IoT: it connects millions of devices, routes messages in real time, and bridges them into backend data systems. Aimed at AI, IoT, IIoT, connected vehicles and smart cities.
- 97
ag-ui
16.6Kag-ui-protocol/ag-ui · TypeScriptAG-UI is an open, lightweight, event-based protocol that standardizes how AI agents connect to user-facing applications — a shared event contract between an agent backend and the UI that shows its work.
- 98

pipecat
16.5Kpipecat-ai/pipecat · PythonPipecat is an open-source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational agents — from a single voice bot to a distributed multi-agent system — maintained by Daily and the community.
- 99

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.
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YoutubeDownloader
16.4KTyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader · C#A desktop app for downloading from YouTube: paste the URL of any video, playlist or channel and save it in the format you choose. It can also search YouTube by keywords for quick look-ups.
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