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 Livestreamer
 ============
-Livestreamer is a library and a CLI that can be used to retrieve information and stream data from various livestreaming and VOD services.
 
-See http://livestreamer.tanuki.se/ for more information on how to use it.
+[![PyPi Version](https://badge.fury.io/py/livestreamer.png)](http://badge.fury.io/py/livestreamer)
+[![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/chrippa/livestreamer.png)](http://travis-ci.org/schmich/kappa)
+[![Downloads](https://pypip.in/d/livestreamer/badge.png)](https://crate.io/packages/livestreamer?version=latest)
 
 
-Software based on Livestreamer
+Livestreamer is CLI program that extracts streams from various services and pipes them into
+a video player of choice.
+
+* Documentation: http://livestreamer.tanuki.se/
+* GitHub: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer
+* PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/livestreamer
+* Free software: Simplified BSD license
+
+
+Features
+--------
+
+Livestreamer is built upon a plugin system which allows support for new services
+to be easily added. 
+
+Currently most of the big streaming services are supported, e.g. 
+[Dailymotion](http://dailymotion.com/live/),
+[Livestream](http://livestream.com/),
+[Twitch](http://twitch.tv/),
+[Justin.tv](http://justin.tv),
+[YouTube Live](http://youtube.com/live/) and [Ustream](http://ustream.tv/).
+
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+The default behaviour of Livestreamer is to playback a stream in the default player (VLC).
+
+
+    # pip install livestreamer
+    $ livestreamer twitch.tv/day9tv best
+    [cli][info] Found matching plugin justintv for URL twitch.tv/day9tv
+    [cli][info] Opening stream: 720p
+    [cli][info] Starting player: vlc
+
+
+For more in-depth usage and install instructions see the full documentation available
+at http://livestreamer.tanuki.se/.
+
+
+Livestreamer related software
 ------------------------------
 
-[Alternative interfaces](https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/wiki/Alternative-interfaces)
+Feel free to add any Livestreamer related things to the [wiki](https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/wiki/).
 
 
 Contributing
@@ -19,7 +60,7 @@ If you wish to contribute to this project please follow these guidelines:
 - Basic Git knowledge (http://gun.io/blog/how-to-github-fork-branch-and-pull-request/).
 - Coding style: It's not strictly PEP8 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008) but at least tries to stay close to it.
 - Add unit tests if possible and make sure existing ones pass.
-- Make sure your code is compatible with Python 2.6+ and 3.2+.
+- Make sure your code is compatible with both Python 2.6+ and 3.2+.
 - Squash commits where it makes sense to do so (fixing typos or other mistakes should not be a separate commit).
 - Open a pull request that relates to but one subject with a clear title and description.
 - When creating a pull request, make sure it's on the correct branch. These branches are currently used: