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Twitch Downloader

CLI tool for downloading videos from twitch.tv

Inspired by youtube-dl but improves upon it by using multiple concurrent connections to make the download faster.

Resources

Requirements

  • Python 3.9 or later
  • ffmpeg, installed and on the system path

Quick start

See installation instructions to set up twitch-dl.

List videos from a channel.

twitch-dl videos bananasaurus_rex

List clips from a channel.

twitch-dl clips bananasaurus_rex

Download a video by URL.

twitch-dl download https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1418494769

or by ID

twitch-dl download 1418494769

Download a clip by URL

twitch-dl download https://www.twitch.tv/bananasaurus_rex/clip/PlacidColdClipsdadDeIlluminati-hL2s_aLE4CHvVN4J

or by slug

twitch-dl download PlacidColdClipsdadDeIlluminati-hL2s_aLE4CHvVN4J

For more info see the documentation.

License

Copyright 2018-2022 Ivan Habunek ivan@habunek.com

Licensed under the GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Useful links for dev

Some other downloaders:

Twitch GQL:

YTT Subs:

Metadata

Release files for twitch-dl 3.3.2

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Source distribution for twitch-dl 3.3.2
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Table of built distributions (wheels) for twitch-dl 3.3.2
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