livekit/livekit
End-to-end realtime stack for connecting humans and AI
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Where it stands
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Ranks #57 of 1,950 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 3%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 6 days ago, with 129 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #28 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 19, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a scalable, multi-user real-time video, audio, and data conferencing stack based on WebRTC.
- Offers a production-ready, distributed SFU server with advanced features like speaker detection, simulcast, and end-to-end encryption.
- Use for building interactive video conferencing applications with robust connectivity and multi-region support.
- Use for integrating AI voice assistants and voice-enabled features in real-time communication apps.
- Use for ingesting and streaming live video from external sources like OBS Studio or RTMP into WebRTC applications.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
LiveKit is an open source project that provides scalable, multi-user conferencing based on WebRTC. It's designed to provide everything you need to build real-time video audio data capabilities in your applications.
LiveKit's server is written in Go, using the awesome Pion WebRTC implementation.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+1,627 stars over 90 days across 27 snapshot days; best day +30 on Aug 13.
Forks
2.4K+287
Open issues
197+16
Compared with peers in Backend
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| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 11.1K | +5.4K | 60 | 3 days ago |
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| microsoft/mxc | 2.8K | +1.4K | 65 | 6 days ago |
| danyuchn/asd-ste100-skill | 4.7K | +1.0K | 75 | — |
| livekit/livekit | 21.4K | +0 | 75 | 6 days ago |
| Category median | 11.1K | +2.2K | 65 | — |
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