automation

Liquidsoap: Power Your Media Streams and Automation Seamlessly

Name: Liquidsoap: Power Your Media Streams and Automation Seamlessly
Author: savonet

Liquidsoap lets founders build robust streaming, file generation, and HTTP back‑ends with a statically typed language. Ideal for web radio and media automation. 1.7k+ GitHub stars.

From the repo · “Liquidsoap is a statically typed scripting general-purpose language with dedicated operators and backend for all thing media, streaming, file generation, automation, HTTP backend and more.”

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1,736 stars+1★ this week162 forksOCamlGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Oct 12Updated 10/19/2026100% free · open source

What it is

You write scripts to automate media workflows with Liquidsoap.

Real use case example

"A founder creates a Liquidsoap script to fetch music playlists from Spotify, convert them to MP3, and upload them to their website for a radio show. They configure the script to run daily, and it takes 5 minutes to set up. Within a day or two, the radio show is updated with fresh music without manual labor."

When to use it

•You need to build a custom audio or video streaming platform
•You want to automate the generation of media content, such as podcasts or videos
•You require a flexible backend for your media project with HTTP support

Ready-to-paste prompt

liquidsoap 'output.icecast(%vbr, host="localhost", port=8000, password="password", mount="stream")'

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/liquidsoap && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/liquidsoap/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/liquidsoap/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How Liquidsoap: Power Your Media Streams and Automation Seamlessly works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Liquidsoap: Power Your Media Streams and Automation Seamlessly is a very large OCaml project (~136k lines across 867 code files, plus 93 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, GPL-2.0 license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~136k lines · 867 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

Developer setup

A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.

Runs on

OCaml

No API keys detected

OCaml 69%Liquidsoap 15%C 11%Pawn 3%PHP 1%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
bin/liquidsoap-macos-instruments
Where the program starts running
3
src/js/README.md
Inside src/ — the main logic begins here

What's in each folder

src/Core code — the actual logic1660 files

bin/Command-line entry points1 files

doc/Documentation248 files

opam/Folder11 files

scripts/Helper scripts8 files

tests/Tests — proof it works664 files

.github/CI / automation (GitHub Actions)79 files

.scripts/Tool / agent settings1 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksGPL-2.0 licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/liquidsoap && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/liquidsoap/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/liquidsoap/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

Quick Actions

Details

Creator

savonet

Language

OCaml

Do this with a working workflow

Pages we wrote and tested that put a skill like this to work — importable n8n templates, outcome guides and Claude Desktop configs.

Outcome guide

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MCP config