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.1.10.2.pyz --help

b) making it executable and invoking it directly (linux specific):

chmod +x twitch-dl.1.10.2.pyz
./twitch-dl.1.10.2.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

List recent streams for a given channel:

twitch-dl videos bananasaurus_rex

Yields (trimmed):

Found 33 videos

221837124
SUPER MARIO ODYSSSEY - Stream #2 / 600,000,000
Bananasaurus_Rex playing Super Mario Odyssey
Published 2018-01-24 @ 12:05:25  Length: 3h 40min

221418913
Dead Space and then SUPER MARIO ODYSSEY PogChamp
Bananasaurus_Rex playing Dead Space
Published 2018-01-23 @ 02:40:58  Length: 6h 2min

220783179
Dead Space | Got my new setup working! rexChamp
Bananasaurus_Rex playing Dead Space
Published 2018-01-21 @ 05:47:03  Length: 5h 7min

Use the --game option to specify one or more games to show:

twitch-dl videos --game "doom eternal" --game "cave story" bananasaurus_rex

Download a stream 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

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".

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