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Getting Started
Orientation guides for developers new to Livepeer.Official Quickstart
Create an API key and send your first livestream or video upload in under five minutes. The canonical starting point for all Livepeer developers.
Developer's Guide to Getting Started with Livepeer
A thorough community walkthrough covering what Livepeer is, how transcoding works, and how to make your first API call — written by Livepeer DevRel. (Hashnode, 2022)
Liberating Video Infrastructure: A Guide to Decentralisation with Livepeer
Explains the Livepeer architecture — nodes, tokens, transcoding — and shows how to connect a developer application to the network. (Dev.to, 2023)
Livepeer Dev Hub
The official developer hub on livepeer.org — links to quickstarts, SDKs, grant programmes, and the developer office hours calendar.
Video Streaming: Livestreams and VOD
Step-by-step guides for building livestreaming and video-on-demand features.Create a Livestream (Official Docs)
Official guide to creating a stream object, retrieving the stream key, and playing back via HLS using
useCreateStream and useStream hooks.Build a Twitch Clone with the Livepeer API
Uses Postman to walk through the full stream lifecycle — create, retrieve, update, record, and delete streams — against the Livepeer REST API. (HackerNoon, 2022)
How to Make API Calls with Postman and Livepeer Video Services
A beginner-friendly guide using Postman as the HTTP client to test Livepeer’s streaming API without writing any code. (Dev.to, 2022)
Set Up a Video Player with Video.js and Livepeer
Official tutorial repository showing how to embed a Livepeer HLS stream into a webpage using Video.js. Suitable for any framework.
Livepeer Demo App (Next.js)
Official demo application in Next.js demonstrating stream creation and playback using the Livepeer.com API. Includes OBS/Streamyard integration notes.
Export to IPFS with Livepeer Video Services
Shows how to upload a video asset via the VOD API and export it to IPFS in two API calls, ready for decentralised storage and NFT minting. (Dev.to, 2022)
Upload and Stream Videos off Arweave with Livepeer
Community tutorial demonstrating permanent storage on Arweave combined with Livepeer transcoding for decentralised video delivery.
Upload, Transcode, and Stream Videos off IPFS with Livepeer
Demonstrates fetching an IPFS-hosted video, passing it through Livepeer’s transcode pipeline, and serving adaptive bitrate HLS output.
Full-Stack Application Guides
Tutorials building complete applications with Livepeer as the video layer.Building a Full-Stack Web3 YouTube Clone
Full-stack tutorial using Next.js, IPFS, The Graph, Solidity, Polygon, and Livepeer for video transcoding and playback. By Suhail Kakar (Livepeer DevRel). (2022)
Building a Full-Stack Web3 TikTok Clone with React Native and Lens Protocol
End-to-end mobile application tutorial using React Native,
@livepeer/react-native, Lens Protocol, and WalletConnect. (2023)CyberTube: Decentralised Video Sharing with CyberConnect and Livepeer
Builds a video-sharing platform where videos are published as EssenceNFTs on CyberConnect’s social graph, with Livepeer handling transcoding. (Hashnode, 2023)
Mint a Video NFT using Livepeer and Polygon
Walks through using Livepeer’s Video NFT SDK to transcode a video and mint it on Polygon’s Mumbai testnet. (Dev.to, 2022)
Next Video Build: Web3 Social with Lens Protocol and Next.js
Workshop recording and notes from the Encode Club hackathon covering Web3 social video applications built with Lens Protocol and Livepeer. (2022)
AI Inference and Real-Time AI Video
Guides for building AI-powered video pipelines using the Livepeer network.ComfyUI and Real-Time Video AI Processing
Explains how Livepeer integrates with ComfyUI’s DAG architecture to power real-time AI video pipelines, covering use cases and infrastructure design. (Livepeer Blog, January 2025)
Building Real-Time AI Video Effects with ComfyStream
Technical deep dive into ComfyStream — the open-source plugin that enables ComfyUI workflows to process live video streams on the Livepeer network. (Livepeer Blog, February 2025)
Livepeer AI JavaScript/TypeScript SDK
Official SDK for calling Livepeer AI inference endpoints (text-to-image, image-to-image, image-to-video, and more) from JavaScript or TypeScript applications.
Livepeer AI Python SDK
Official Python library for the Livepeer AI API — install via pip, call inference pipelines, and handle responses in a few lines of code.
AI Runner: Inference Runtime for Livepeer AI Pipelines
The containerised AI inference runtime that powers Livepeer’s AI subnet. Includes setup guides for running pipelines locally and contributing new pipelines.
Builder Story: StreamDiffusionTD + Daydream API
Practical builder story showing how to connect StreamDiffusion to TouchDesigner using the Daydream API for live generative video at performances and installations. (Livepeer Blog, September 2025)
Daydream API Documentation
Official Daydream documentation — covers setup, API reference, and guides for building real-time AI video applications on the Livepeer network.
Why the Livepeer AI Subnet is a Big Deal
Community explainer covering the architecture of the AI Subnet — gateways, orchestrators, AI workers — and what it means for builders. (Medium / Coinmonks, July 2024)
SDK and API Reference Guides
Guides for integrating official Livepeer SDKs.Livepeer JavaScript SDK
Official JS/TS library for the Livepeer Studio API — stream creation, asset upload, playback, and viewership metrics. Full docs at docs.livepeer.org.
Livepeer Python SDK
Official Python library for the Livepeer Studio API with typed models and retry support. Install via pip:
pip install livepeer.Python SDK Quickstart (Official Docs)
Official docs walkthrough for creating your first stream using the Python SDK, with example code and links to the GitHub repo.
Livepeer.js React Hooks
The
@livepeer/react package provides ready-made React hooks (useCreateStream, useAsset, usePlayer) for adding video to React applications.Node Operations: Orchestrators and Gateways
Guides for running infrastructure on the Livepeer network.Earn with Nvidia GPUs on Livepeer
A community guide from a Livepeer protocol engineer showing how to set up a video mining (orchestrator) node using spare Nvidia GPUs. (HackerNoon, 2021)
Docker Portainer: Node Operator Efficiency Guide
Community guide for managing Livepeer orchestrator nodes via Docker and Portainer, covering container setup, monitoring, and management.
Production Log Monitoring and Alerting for Orchestrators
Detailed forum guide on setting up log monitoring and alerting for production Livepeer orchestrator nodes. Search the forum for “Production Log Monitoring.”
Livepeer Staking in 10 Minutes
Community video walkthrough by Titan Node covering how to delegate LPT to an orchestrator and begin earning staking rewards.
Community-Curated Resources
Community-maintained collections and aggregators.Awesome Livepeer (livepeer.cool)
The official community-curated list of Livepeer projects, tutorials, demos, tools, and resources. Shortcut:
livepeer.cool. Contributions welcome via PR.Awesome Livepeer (rickstaa fork)
Extended community fork of the awesome-livepeer list with additional tools, AI inference resources, and an AI Dune Dashboard.
Livepeer GitHub Topics
Browse all public GitHub repositories tagged with the
livepeer topic, including community tools, integrations, and experimental projects.