Playback audio stream using streamlink API

[albumxy]

Hello,

I understand how to use streamlink CLI to play music/media: $ streamlink <url> best -p cvlc.

I would like to achieve the same thing using the streamlink API instead. Reasoning: I cannot afford to spin another python subprocess to run streamlink process in my code. I have read the API guide at https://streamlink.github.io/api_guide.html, but not quite sure how to feed the stream data to a media player, be it a python library (simpleaudio, pyaudio, etc.) or vlc via its python binding (python-vlc).

Any help is welcomed. Many thanks.