How to get the bottom bar stats in obs python?

[ITR]

How do I get the stats in the bottom bar when using OBS python? Mostly interested in stream duration, but rest would be nice to have too.

 

[John Hartman]

For stream or recording duration, one option is to use obs_frontend_add_event_callback to specify a callback, and handle OBS_FRONTEND_EVENT_STREAMING_STARTED/STOPPED events. Save a timestamp; current duration = now - time_of_start

For the stats etc.you might look at https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-stats-on-stream.1319/ I haven't used it, and it's in Lua rather than Python, but it should at least point you at the OBS functions to look at

 

[ITR]

Ah, thanks! By looking at it I found out theres an Output API, that didn't show up because I was searching for seconds specifically.