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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.1.10.2.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