Show HN: Native WebRTC with Python and Asyncio

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Show HN: Native WebRTC with Python and Asyncio


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A Python extension that provides bindings to WebRTC M92


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Python WebRTC

Stop making unstandard pure implementations of WebRTC and let’s use the native library!

This project follows the W3C specification with some modifications and additions to make it work better with Python applications, with useful APIs like programmatic audio and video.

DISCLAIMER

This project is still under development and isn’t ready for any serious use. In the current stage, it’s possible to establish connection and work with audio, but many interfaces and methods not implemented yet.

Snippet

import asyncio
import webrtc


async def main():
    pc = webrtc.RTCPeerConnection()

    stream = webrtc.get_user_media()
    for track in stream.get_tracks():
        pc.add_track(track, stream)

    audio_source = webrtc.RTCAudioSource()
    track = audio_source.create_track()
    pc.add_track(track)

    local_sdp = await pc.create_offer()
    print(local_sdp.sdp)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(main())

Requirements

Pre-built wheels:

  • Python 3.7 or higher
  • pip 21 or higher
  • And compatible platform:
Linux macOS Windows
armv7l arm64 x86_64 Intel Apple Silicon 64bit
Python 3.7 N/A N/A N/A
3.8 N/A N/A
3.9 N/A N/A
3.10 N/A N/A

Building from sources (sdist):

  • ~15 GB of free disk space
  • CMake 3.14 or higher
  • GCC 7.5 or higher
  • glibc 2.18 or higher
  • ARM toolchain (ARM only)

Full building instruction will be present later

Installing

Pre-built wheel:

Build from sources:

pip3 install --pre wrtc --no-binary wrtc

Documentation

The documentation is live at readthedocs.io.

Getting help

You can get help in several ways:

Contributing

Contributions of any sizes are welcome.

Special thanks to

License

The python-webrtc is published under the BSD 3-Clause License.

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