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Download from Twitch

Paste a clip link and save it as MP4 or MP3.

By using this site you confirm you have the right to download the file you request.

How it works

  1. 1

    Copy the clip or VOD address

    clips.twitch.tv/… or twitch.tv/videos/… — both are accepted.

  2. 2

    Paste it and press Start

    Clips resolve quickly; a long VOD may not resolve at all.

  3. 3

    Pick a height

    Twitch does publish a ladder, unlike most of the short-video sites here.

What you can get

Clips are what this is for. A full VOD is usually hours long and our 90-minute limit turns it away — that cap is what keeps one request from occupying a worker for an afternoon. Twitch serves its clips in HEVC, which plays on any iPhone, Mac or recent Android; a Windows PC may need the HEVC extension from the Microsoft Store, which is free.

Clips work; long VODs usually do not

A Twitch clip is a short, finished file and comes through cleanly. A VOD is an archived broadcast that often runs for hours, and past the length cap on our side it is refused rather than queued — a four-hour re-encode would hold the queue for everybody else.

If a stream you want is published as clips, those are the reliable route.

A filter that hid the ladder

Twitch declares a height for each quality but not always a width. Our ladder builder required both before it would count a format, so Twitch came back with a single generic "MP4" row instead of the resolutions it actually offers.

The filter now treats a missing width as landscape and derives it, so the real ladder appears.

Frequently asked questions

Why was my VOD refused?

Length. Archived broadcasts run for hours and converting one would hold the queue for everyone else.

Do subscriber-only VODs work?

No. They need an account with that subscription.

Can I take the audio of a clip?

Yes, the audio rows give MP3.

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