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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
- Homepage: https://github.com/ihabunek/twitch-dl
- Issues: https://github.com/ihabunek/twitch-dl/issues
- Python package: https://pypi.org/project/twitch-dl/
Requirements
- Python 3.5+
- ffmpeg, installed and on the system path
Installation
Download standalone archive
Go to the latest release
and download the twitch-dl.<version>.pyz archive.
Run the archive by either:
a) passing it to python:
python3 twitch-dl.1.13.0.pyz --help
b) making it executable and invoking it directly (linux specific):
chmod +x twitch-dl.1.13.0.pyz
./twitch-dl.1.13.0.pyz --help
Feel free to rename the archive to something more managable, like twitch-dl.
To upgrade to a newer version, repeat the process with the newer release.
From PYPI using pipx
pipx is a tool which installs python apps into isolated environments, which prevents all kinds of problems later so it's the suggested way to install twitch-dl from PYPI.
Install pipx as described in pipx install docs.
Install twitch-dl:
pipx install twitch-dl
Check installation worked:
twitch-dl --help
If twitch-dl executable is not found, check that the pipx binary location (by
default ~/.local/bin) is in your PATH.
To upgrade twitch-dl to the latest version:
pipx install twitch-dl
Usage
This section does an overview of available features.
To see a list of available commands run:
twitch-dl --help
And to see description and all arguments for a given command run:
twitch-dl <command> --help
Print clip or video info
Videos can be referenced by URL or ID:
twitch-dl info 863849735
twitch-dl info https://www.twitch.tv/videos/863849735
Clips by slug or ID:
twitch-dl info BusyBlushingCattleItsBoshyTime
twitch-dl info https://www.twitch.tv/bananasaurus_rex/clip/BusyBlushingCattleItsBoshyTime
Shows info about the video or clip as well as download URLs for clips and playlist URLs for videos.
Listing videos
List recent streams for a given channel:
twitch-dl videos bananasaurus_rex
Use the --game option to specify one or more games to show:
twitch-dl videos --game "doom eternal" --game "cave story" bananasaurus_rex
Downloading videos
Download a video by ID or URL:
twitch-dl download 221837124
twitch-dl download https://www.twitch.tv/videos/221837124
Specify video quality to download:
twitch-dl download -q 720p 221837124
Setting quality to source will download the best available quality:
twitch-dl download -q source 221837124
Overriding file name
The target filename can be defined by passing the --output option followed by
the desired file name, e.g. --output strim.mkv.
The filename uses Python format string syntax and may contain placeholders in curly braces which will be replaced with relevant information tied to the downloaded video.
The supported placeholders are:
| Placeholder | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
{id} |
Video ID | 1255522958 |
{title} |
Video title | Dark Souls 3 First playthrough |
{title_slug} |
Slugified video title | dark_souls_3_first_playthrough |
{datetime} |
Video date and time | 2022-01-07T04:00:27Z |
{date} |
Video date | 2022-01-07 |
{time} |
Video time | 04:00:27Z |
{channel} |
Channel name | KatLink |
{channel_login} |
Channel login | katlink |
{format} |
File extension, see --format |
mkv |
{game} |
Game name | Dark Souls III |
{game_slug} |
Slugified game name | dark_souls_iii |
A couple of examples:
Pattern: "{date}_{id}_{channel_login}_{title_slug}.{format}"
Expands to: 2022-01-07_1255522958_katlink_dark_souls_3_first_playthrough.mkv
This is the default.
Pattern: "{channel} - {game} - {title}.{format}"
Expands to: KatLink - Dark Souls III - Dark Souls 3 First playthrough.mkv
Listing clips
List clips for the given period:
twitch-dl clips bananasaurus_rex --period last_week
Supported periods are: last_day, last_week, last_month, all_time.
For listing a large number of clips, it's nice to page them:
twitch-dl clips bananasaurus_rex --period all_time --limit 10 --pager
This will show 10 clips at a time and ask to continue.
Downloading clips
Download a clip by slug or URL:
twitch-dl download VenomousTameWormHumbleLife
twitch-dl download https://www.twitch.tv/bananasaurus_rex/clip/VenomousTameWormHumbleLife
Specify clip quality to download:
twitch-dl download -q 720 VenomousTameWormHumbleLife
Note that twitch names for clip qualities have no trailing "p".
Batch downloading clips
It's possible to download all clips for a given period:
twitch-dl clips bananasaurus_rex --period last_week --download
Clips are downloaded in source quality.
A note about clips
Currently it doesn't seem to be possible to get a list of clips ordered by time of creation, only by view count. Clips with the same view count seem to be returned in random order. This can break paging resulting in duplicate clips listed or clips missed.
When batch downloading a large number of clips (over 100), it's possible that some will be missed.
Temporary files
By default, twitch-dl will download VODs to your systems temp dir (e.g. /tmp/
on Linux). To change the location where the files are downloaded you can set
the TMP environment variable, e.g.
TMP=/my/tmp/path/ twitch-dl download 221837124
Man page
Building the man page for twitch-dl requires scdoc.
The source is in twitch-dl.1.scd, and you can build it by running:
make man
License
Copyright 2018-2020 Ivan Habunek ivan@habunek.com
Licensed under the GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html