Livekit Realtime Webrtc Server

---
name: "LiveKit Real-Time Video Audio and Data Server with WebRTC"
slug: "livekit-realtime-webrtc-server"
description: "LiveKit is an open-source, scalable WebRTC-based real-time communication server written in Go. It provides multi-user conferencing, streaming, and data channels with client SDKs for JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React, Go, Python, Rust, and Unity."
github_stars: 17975
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/livekit/livekit"
category: "Integrations & Connectors"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "livekit/livekit"
  github_stars: 17975
---

# LiveKit Real-Time Video Audio and Data Server with WebRTC

LiveKit is an open-source, scalable WebRTC-based real-time communication server written in Go. It provides multi-user conferencing, streaming, and data channels with client SDKs for JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React, Go, Python, Rust, and Unity.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- brew install livekit
- git clone https://github.com/livekit/livekit

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Easy to deploy: single binary, Docker or Kubernetes
- | Python (community) | [python-sdks](https://github.com/livekit/python-sdks) | |
- [Docker image](https://hub.docker.com/r/livekit/livekit-server)

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- <a href="https://github.com/livekit/client-sdk-js/tree/main/example" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">JS example</a>
- <a href="https://github.com/livekit/client-sdk-js/tree/main/example" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">React example</a>
- <a href="https://github.com/livekit/client-example-swift" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">example</a>

- Source: https://github.com/livekit/livekit
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/livekit/livekit/HEAD/README.md

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