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Here are the best methods for downloading Twitch streams – whether your own or someone else’s – for making highlight videos and more.
If you’re a Twitch streamer, some of the easiest ways to diversify your content offering are to do highlights of your streams. Whether you’re trying to do it yourself (godspeed if so) or you’ve hired an editor, you’re going to have to know how to download your Twitch VODs.
In this article, we’ll provide you with a step-by-step guide to downloading your own Twitch vods, as well as show you some tools to download others'.
Downloading your own Twitch VODs is simple. But it’s easy to forget a step or two along the way. The first thing you want to do is make sure that your channel is set up to save archives at all. Some streamers don’t like having archives in case viewers want to cherry pick your content. But if you do, here are the steps.
How to enable archives on your channel
Once you have your VODs saving automatically, you can pick and choose which videos you want to save on your computer. To do so, here are the steps:
To save your archived streams
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How to download someone else’s Twitch VODs
There’s no way to officially do this, and therefore you should only do it if you have permission from the streamer. While they could download the file for you and send it over, that’s tedious and takes a long time for the streamer. Using a program like Twitch Leecher makes the process a sinch. Here’s how - and again, make sure you have permission.
So that’s how to download Twitch VODs.
Looking to download clips instead of VODs?Use thisTwitch clip downloadertool to instantly download any clip for free.
Be sure to check out our other guides on Twitch - like how to find yourstream key, or how tounban someone on Twitch.
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