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How to download a video from Twitch.tv?

giantsulisesgiantsulises Member
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How can i download a video that i has stream on Twitch.tv? Or a highlight?
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  • FireFire Moderator
    Get the clip ID (twitch.tv/username/b/CLIPIDHERE) and go to the api page in this format:



    And download the file linked inside <video_file_url> </video_file_url>

    Note that highlight's IDs (/c/ID) are not the id you need, you have to get the actual broadcast ID via your videos list, right click -> copy link location on the link to the highlight, it'l give you the broadcast id. The "your highlight is now ready" email will also give you this id.
    Post edited by Fire on
  • bgeorgebgeorge Moderator
    Another way to get the download link is through a little script I wrote to index your recent archives. Just enter your channel name on the page to index your archives.

  • FireFire Moderator
    @bgeorge very nice work!
  • empsaltystickthrowerempsaltystickthrower Member
    Thanks for all the awesome help you've posted guys, but the download only goes through first 2 hours of the broadcast. How can I download past the second hour of the stream? Twitch used to have parts 1 and 2 back then but it seems they removed this feature on the archives.

    Thanks for your help!
  • FireFire Moderator
    @empsaltstickthrower you'll have to go to the highlight page of the broadcast and get the /b/ links to the parts that way (bottom left)
    Post edited by Fire on
  • kurtkurt321kurtkurt321 Member
    Thank you very much
  • FireFire Moderator
    Yeppers :)
  • codered11343codered11343 Member
    @Fire sorry, maybe I am just a total noob, but I cant find the info you talk about to get the full (over 2 hours) video. This is a video I have been trying to download in full (http://www.twitch.tv/shaboozey/b/309253116), could you use it as a example to help my small mind? Thank you!
  • aspa00aspa00 Member
    try download with program "Replay Media Catcher 4" or simular
     i think it's easiest way
  • bgeorgebgeorge Moderator
    @codered11343 - You are not going to be able to download the entire clip as one single video since all videos are split into 2 hour parts. If you want all of the footage from the clip you linked you will need to download these 2 videos:


  • codered11343codered11343 Member
    @bgeorge - Thanks, but thats what I want to know, how to get the second link? How do I find it?
    Thanks again and feel free to PM me
    Post edited by codered11343 on
  • FireFire Moderator
    @codered11343 as I said previously, you can go to the highlight page for the broadcast and get the /b/ id from the link to the parts in the bottom left corner.
    Post edited by Fire on
  • bgeorgebgeorge Moderator
    @codered11343 - I use my script to do it -> 
    http://bashtech.net/justin/archive-index.php?stream=shaboozey

    The starting clip ID is 309253116 from your link above and since the achieve is longer than 2 hours (120 minutes) you know that there are more parts you need to download as well. The second part of the clip is the one that shows up directly above the first on. You can confirm this by clicking the Watch link and see that it starts at 2:00:00/
  • codered11343codered11343 Member
    @bgeorge Thank you so much, I finally understand!

    Thanks for helping a small mind.
  • smytheonsmytheon Member

    @ bgeorge - I too came here trying to solve downloading after the 2hr limit. I just want to say thanks for that script.


     


     

    Post edited by smytheon on
  • otzengotzeng Member
    Nice script! Is it possible that twitch deletes the longer-than-2-hours parts of videos after a while? I cant seem to find the later parts of this video here for example:
    justin.tv/notch/b/309713237/

    Any suggestions ?
  • thenewmrthenewmr Member
    Hi.  I posted in another thread and was redirected here.  My problem was that I was having trouble getting the ID of the video but since posting my question, I found that the page now has an archive link and I was able to get the ID.  I am downloading the video as I write this.

    Just wanted to say thanks for the help @Fire and @bgeorge
    Post edited by thenewmr on
  • taim1taim1 Member
    A easier way to download a live (all parts) is to use JDownloader and copy the URL of the live.
  • yoshikirishimayoshikirishima Member
    Sorry but I'm a noob at this...

    Is there still a way to download other parts of the video, if it's longer than 2 hours?

    I went to the highlight page of a video I want to download, but I don't see anything in the bottom left :( Maybe it changed?

    I'm curious as to why we can't view the other parts anymore, but if anyone can tell me how to download the rest of the broadcast past 2 hours, that would be great!

    Thanks in advance!

    (For example: 
    http://www.twitch.tv/kimsungje/b/289482795/highlight I don't see any links or IDs in the bottom left?)
  • bgeorgebgeorge Moderator
    @yoshikirishima - http://bashtech.net/justin/download.php?clip=289482795
  • coffeelingcoffeeling Member
    Anything that can be done when the Highlight button just doesn't show up? (When it doesn't, adding /highlight to the end of the URL doesn't work either, despite the broadcast clearly being long)
  • bgeorgebgeorge Moderator
    @coffeeling - On your own channel? If not, the the broadcast does not want anyone to make highlights of their content.
    Post edited by bgeorge on
  • coffeelingcoffeeling Member
    Ah, okay. So then I'm at the mercy of twitch's sucktastic vods. Just great. Any other way than the highlight feature to get the IDs of the latter parts of an archive? Asking because the VOD player really is that crappy at least for me. Only actual way to get watchable VODs is to download the .flvs directly.
  • FireFire Moderator
    @coffeeling 
    http://bashtech.net/justin/download.php     might let you do it.
    Post edited by Fire on
  • iesdiseiesdise Member
    @codered11343 - I use my script to do it -> 
    http://bashtech.net/justin/archive-index.php?stream=shaboozey

    The starting clip ID is 309253116 from your link above and since the achieve is longer than 2 hours (120 minutes) you know that there are more parts you need to download as well. The second part of the clip is the one that shows up directly above the first on. You can confirm this by clicking the Watch link and see that it starts at 2:00:00/
    I LITERALLY LOVE YOU! <3

    This tool is totally amazing, I had the same "two hours" problem for ages! Again, thank you, you saved my life!
  • jifferrifficjifferriffic Member
    I'm having issues.. I can download the videos just fine, but they all are missing audio! whats up with this???
  • bgeorgebgeorge Moderator
    @jifferriffic - Your playback application does not support the Speex audio codec the free version of XSplit uses.
  • rathawynterrathawynter Member
    I would like to ask one of the mods @Fire or @bgeorge what happens to videos that are longer than two hours and older than a week long?

    For the first entire week that a video is posted, it seems, that you can watch all of the content from that video, no matter how long it was. (Or atleast up to 4 hours since most of the streams i watch only go to about 2.5 hours.) My problem is that videos from people which are older than one week have all been cropped to 2 hours and cut off suddenly at that mark. I know those videos originally had more than 2 hours worth of content because i watched it during the first week and went back to reference it later, only to be unable to access the 'second part.'

    I have used the script as posted above to check out multiple casters, but specifically DiggitySC who pretty much streams for 2.5 hours every night, and you can clearly see that every video older than a week that ran past 2 hours, no longer has any additional or linked parts posted the same day. The first part of those videos exist, but not the last part? This indicates to me that the second parts of videos are either not being archived properly by the indexer, or are actually being deleted.

    The only other reason i can think of that they arnt being saved is that the poster needs to mark all 'parts' of a live streamed video with 'save forever' and perhaps they are just doing it to the first part when its still a single video/url/id? Ive never uploaded a long video so i dont know quite how that works, and im not in contact with most of those streamers in order to see if they are doing that, but this is a problem occurring with pretty much every stream ive tried to view that had archived videos older than a week. The video player simply isnt able to retrieve video data past the two hour mark (after a week) in any browser ive tried (many versions of firefox and older versions of IE), and videos that were previously listed on the video page as longer than two hours on the site, show that they are now 2 hours instead.

    Would love to figure out why this happens, if its a bug with the site, part of maintenance, an issue with the save-stream interface, misunderstanding on the person who recorded the videos part, a setting, or whatever it may be.
    Post edited by rathawynter on
  • rathawynterrathawynter Member
    With regard to Speex audio codec, does -anyone- have a functioning codec for Speex playback for use in VLC, MPC, BSplayer, Zoomplayer, or any common desktop media player? I spent literally days a few months ago trying to find one, and nothing i tried worked aside from downloading a flash-based video player which was simply horrendous to use. Admittedly i have not looked since as most of the people i watch or download videos for regularly upgraded back to AAC (AC3?) audio outputs in XSplit, but would still be nice to have one for viewing downloaded content from some channels who have not upgraded.
    Post edited by rathawynter on
  • advaitaradvaitar Member
    Same question as rathawynter. I'm trying to find the post 2 hour mark content for this video http://bashtech.net/twitch/download.php?clip=308435431. It is dated Feb 13 2012. Anyway I can download the full video? It was 6 hours long iirc.
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