twitch-dl(1)

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version 3.3.2 · 2 versions
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💅 twitch-dl 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the twitch-dl(1) page — this is the General Commands Manual entry for twitch-dl, and yes we're gonna read it together, it's gonna be fun, I promise 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

twitch-dl — download twitch.tv videos quickly 🔥

✨ SYNOPSYS ✨

(yes, that's how it's spelled in here, don't come for me 💀)

twitch-dl videos   [options] [channel_name]

twitch-dl download [options] [video_id]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so twitch-dl is a command-line tool for downloading videos from Twitch (twitch.tv). and here's the iconic part: it uses multiple workers to download VODs in paralel, which makes it considerably faster than tools that download them one at the time — like youtube-dl, no shade, iykyk 😌

literally the whole point is speed. it's giving main character energy in a sea of one-at-a-time downloaders 💅

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

okay this is where it gets good, watch this 👑

List recent videos from bananasaurus_rex's channel:

twitch-dl videos bananasaurus_rex

Download video by URL:

twitch-dl download https://www.twitch.tv/videos/377220226

Download video by ID:

twitch-dl download 377220226

Specify output format:

twitch-dl download --format=avi 377220226

Partial download by setting start and end time (hh:mm or hh:mm:ss):

twitch-dl download --start=00:10 --end=02:15 377220226

Download clip by URL:

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

Download clip by slug:

twitch-dl download VenomousTameWormHumbleLife
🎀 real talk tho: clips are a single download, and they don't benefit from the paralelism used when downloading videos. so don't @ me when the clip isn't faster, okay? it's literally just how it is 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Copyright Ivan Habunek <ivan@habunek.com>

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

okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🍓💖 mwah! this was twitch-dl(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 1980-01-02 (iconic vintage date fr fr), and that's the sign-off, go download some VODs 🌈⭐

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