LiveKit is an open source project that provides scalable, multi-user conferencing over WebRTC. It's designed to give you everything you need to build real time video/audio capabilities in your applications.
- Horizontally scalable WebRTC Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU)
- Modern, full-featured client SDKs for JS, iOS, Android
- Built for production - JWT authentication and server APIs
- Robust networking & connectivity, over UDP & TCP
- Easy to deploy - pure Go & single binary
- Advanced features - speaker detection, simulcasting, selective subscription, moderation APIs.
Docs & Guides at: https://docs.livekit.io
Head to our playground and give it a spin. Build a Zoom-like conferencing app in under 100 lines of code!
Client SDKs:
Server SDKs:
- Javascript (docs)
- Go (docs)
Tools:
Pre-requisites:
- Go 1.15+ is installed
- GOPATH/bin is in your PATH
- protoc is installed and in PATH
Then run
git clone https://github.com/livekit/livekit-server
cd livekit-server
./bootstrap.sh
mageLiveKit is published to Docker Hub under livekit/livekit-server
LiveKit utilizes JWT based access tokens for authentication to all of its APIs. Because of this, the server needs a list of valid API keys and secrets to validate the provided tokens. For more, see Access Tokens guide.
Generate API key/secret pairs with:
./bin/livekit-server generate-keysor
docker run --rm livekit/livekit-server generate-keysStore the generate keys in a YAML file like:
APIwLeah7g4fuLYDYAJeaKsSE: 8nTlwISkb-63DPP7OH4e.nw.J44JjicvZDiz8J59EoQ+In development mode, LiveKit has no external dependencies. With the key file ready, you can start LiveKit with
./bin/livekit-server --key-file <path/to/keyfile> --devor
docker run --rm -e LIVEKIT_KEYS="<key>: <secret>" livekit/livekit-server --devthe --dev flag turns on log verbosity to make it easier for local debugging/development
To test your server, you can use our example web client (built with our React component)
Enter generated access token and you are connected to a room!
To create a join token for clients, livekit-server provides a convenient subcommand to create a development token. This token has an expiration of a month, which is useful for development & testing, but not appropriate for production use.
./bin/livekit-server --key-file <path/to/keyfile> create-join-token --room "myroom" --identity "myidentity"LiveKit is deployable to any environment that supports docker, including Kubernetes and Amazon ECS.
See deployment docs at https://docs.livekit.io/guides/deploy
We welcome your contributions to make LiveKit better! Please join us on Slack to discuss your ideas and/or submit PRs.
LiveKit server is licensed under Apache License v2.0.