Twitch - Download All Highlights and Uploads

A Python package to download all highlights and uploads from a specified Twitch channel using twitch-dl. This tool was created in response to Twitch's announcement about implementing a 100-hour storage limit for highlights and uploads starting April 19, 2025, to help creators preserve their content before the limit takes effect.

Twitch will automatically delete highlights and uploads after April so no real need to delete them manually.

Attribution

This tool is built on top of twitch-dl by Ivan Habunek (ivan@habunek.com). The original twitch-dl is a fantastic CLI tool for downloading videos from Twitch.tv. This is simply a wrapper that adds automation for batch downloading all highlights and uploads from a channel.

All credit for the core downloading functionality goes to Ivan Habunek and the twitch-dl contributors.

Installation

You can install the package directly from GitHub:

pip install git+https://github.com/thehamsti/twitch-dl-all.git

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6 or higher (I recommend using uv to manage your Python installations)
• twitch-dl
• ffmpeg

Quickstart

Install the packages:

pip install twitch-dl # If you haven't already installed twitch-dl
pip install git+https://github.com/thehamsti/twitch-dl-all.git

# Or with uv
uv pip install twitch-dl --system
uv pip install git+https://github.com/thehamsti/twitch-dl-all.git --system

Note: You'll need to re-source your shell after installing the packages.

source ~/.zshrc
# or
source ~/.bashrc

Run the script:

twitch-dl-all CHANNEL_NAME

Running Without Installation

You can also run the script directly from the cloned repository:

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/thehamsti/twitch-dl-all.git
cd twitch-dl-all

1. Run the script directly:

python -m twitch_dl_all.cli CHANNEL_NAME

Usage

After installation, you can use the command-line tool:

twitch-dl-all CHANNEL_NAME

For example:

twitch-dl-all bananasaurus_rex

Options

• --downloads-dir DIR: Specify the directory to save downloads (default: downloads)
• --version: Show program's version number and exit
• -h, --help: Show help message and exit

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv3 License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• twitch-dl - The core downloading functionality (GPLv3 License)
• Ivan Habunek (ivan@habunek.com) - Creator of twitch-dl