Prelude

Stremio is a modern media center that's a one-stop solution for your video entertainment. It features an add-on system that is responsible for all of the available content.

The purpose of this guide is to teach you how Stremio add-ons work and how to build one yourself using our Add-on SDK. This will allow you to add your favorite content to Stremio!

Motivation

There are plenty of reasons to create your own add-on, including but not limited to:

  • You want your favorite content in Stremio;
  • You want a fun weekend project to enhance your coding skills with;
  • You are running a video entertainment service and want to promote it in Stremio;
  • You are participating in a Stremio Add-on competition, etc.

Requirements

To build an add-on using our SDK, you only need:

Video tutorials and other guides

There are also video tutorials on our YouTube channel.

If you want to learn how to build an add-on in any programming language, check out our universal guide.

There are also quick examples (with step-by-step tutorials) for Python, Ruby, NodeJS Express and others here.

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