Douyu

Douyu (斗鱼) is a major Chinese game streaming platform.

URL Format

https://www.douyu.com/{room_id}

Features

• ✅ FLV streams
• ✅ Danmaku collection
• ✅ Multiple quality options (via rate selection)
• ✅ CDN selection support
• ✅ Interactive game stream detection
• ✅ Android App extraction with AVC / HEVC preference
• ✅ QR code login with automatic renewal

INFO

• Authentication: Without a signed-in account, playback is anonymous, and Douyu may hold rooms with several qualities below the original (for example at 超清). A signed-in account, added as described in Authentication, is sent with stream requests by both the App and the Web method and can unlock the original quality; see Recording without an account. A valid acf_did cookie in the selected account profile supplies the device ID. Access to restricted streams is not guaranteed.
• Preferred Format: Douyu primarily uses FLV for live streams.
• Quality Control: Use the rate setting to choose quality (0 for source/original).
• CDN Switching: You can specify a preferred CDN in the configuration if you face buffering issues.
• Interactive Games: You can choose to automatically skip "Interactive Games" recordings using disable_interactive_game.

Authentication

Douyu accounts are account profiles on the Douyu platform.

Recording without an account

Douyu limits what signed-out viewers get, and the two extraction methods are limited differently:

Method	Without an account	With a signed-in account
App (default)	In rooms with several qualities, usually limited to 超清, but recordings run without interruption	Original quality
Web	Can get a higher quality than App, though not always the original, but Douyu cuts the stream about every five minutes, so recordings split into many short files with brief gaps	Original quality, without the five-minute cuts

To record in the best quality, add a signed-in account. Without one, keep the App method unless a higher quality matters more to you than uninterrupted recordings.

QR code login

1. Go to Settings → Platforms and open Douyu
2. In the Network tab, click Add account, enter a label, keep Scan QR code selected and click Show QR code (to sign an existing account in again, use Log in again on its row or Log in with QR code in its … menu)
3. Scan the QR code with the Douyu app and confirm the login
4. The profile is saved when the login completes; to record with it, click Change above the account list, select it under Account selection and save the page

The login gives the profile a new device ID, which App playback then uses as its acf_did. It also saves Douyu's long-lived sign-in (LTP0) as the profile's refresh token. Recordings that use the profile send its session with their stream requests, which can unlock qualities Douyu keeps for signed-in viewers.

A Douyu session lasts about six days. Once the profile's session is four days old, it is renewed from the saved sign-in before the account is next used; Refresh in the account's … menu renews it at once. If a renewal fails, the account keeps its current session, a Credential refresh failed notification is sent, and renewal is tried again when the account is next used, an hour later at the earliest. When renewals keep failing, for example after signing out of Douyu everywhere, use Log in again on the account.

Manual cookies

Add a profile and paste the cookies of a signed-in browser session. Copy all of the browser's cookies for www.douyu.com, not just a few: if some are missing, the App method records as a signed-out viewer, at lower quality. To have them renewed like a QR login, the cookies must include dy_did, and the LTP0 cookie from passport.douyu.com must be in Refresh token or among the cookies. Without both, the cookies are used as they are until Douyu stops accepting them, and the profile offers no Refresh. A profile holding only an acf_did cookie supplies just the App device ID.

Extraction settings

Set these options in the Douyu platform settings, or override them for a template or streamer. An unset option inherits the preceding configuration layer.

Option	Values / default	Behavior
api_mode	app (default), web	App uses the Android playback API. Web preserves the legacy extractor and is deprecated.
rate	Non-negative integer, default 0	Requested quality: 0 original, 3 ultra HD, 2 HD, 1 SD. Availability depends on the room.
cdn	App default hw; Web default ws-h5	App examples: hw, tct, hs, ws. Existing -h5 suffixes are removed for App requests.
codec	avc (default), hevc	Prefer H.264/AVC or H.265/HEVC. HEVC falls back to AVC if unavailable.
device_name	Random model by default	Android model, e.g. OnePlus 12. Unset generates a model such as ABC-DE12.
os_version	"14" (default)	Android version used with the model to generate the App user agent.
device_id_mode	local (default), server, default	Without a valid acf_did cookie, generate one locally, register with Douyu, or use the fixed compatibility DID.
only_audio	false (default)	Requests AAC without video through the legacy Web method, regardless of api_mode. Codec preference is ignored.
request_retries	Default 3, minimum effective value 1	Maximum attempts for room metadata and App playback.
disable_interactive_game	false (default)	Treat interactive game rooms as offline.

Example platform-specific JSON:

{
  "api_mode": "app",
  "rate": 0,
  "cdn": "hw",
  "codec": "hevc"
}

Douyu may dispatch a different CDN or downgrade the requested quality. Resolved streams report the returned rate/CDN and actual codec. The App method does not automatically switch to Web on playback errors; choose web explicitly when needed. Audio-only is the compatibility exception described above.

The App model, generated user agent, and device ID are initialized on the first App playback request, then reused for retries and CDN changes. Offline checks and Web extraction do not initialize an App device. Device options are still validated when configuring the extractor. Server registration has a five-second timeout, requires network access, and is reused by the same extractor; failures are reported without silently switching identities. To keep an identity across extractor instances or application restarts, put a valid acf_did cookie in the account profile.

The default local DID uses the Android client's timestamp-based MD5 algorithm. device_id_mode: "default" uses 10000000000000000000000000001511.