This script allows you to record twitch streams live to .mp4 files.
It is an improved version of junian's twitch-recorder, migrated to helix - the new twitch API. It uses OAuth2.

1. python3.8 or higher
2. streamlink
3. ffmpeg

1. Check if you have latest version of streamlink:

   • streamlink --version shows current version
   • streamlink --version-check shows available upgrade
   • sudo pip install --upgrade streamlink do upgrade

2. Install requests module if you don't have it

   • Windows: python -m pip install requests
   • Linux: python3.8 -m pip install requests

3. Create config.py file in the same directory as twitch-recorder.py with:

root_path = "/home/abathur/Videos/twitch"
username = "forsen"
client_id = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
client_secret = "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"

root_path - path to a folder where you want your VODs to be saved to
username - name of the streamer you want to record by default
client_id - you can grab this from here once you register your application
client_secret - you generate this here as well, for your registered application

The script will be logging to a console and to a file twitch-recorder.log

Run the script

python3.8 twitch-recorder.py

To record a specific streamer use -u or --username

python3.8 twitch-recorder.py --username forsen

To specify quality use -q or --quality

python3.8 twitch-recorder.py --quality 720p

To change default logging use -l, --log or --logging

python3.8 twitch-recorder.py --log warn

To disable ffmpeg processing (fixing errors in recorded file) use --disable-ffmpeg

python3.8 twitch-recorder.py --disable-ffmpeg

If you want to run the script as a job in the background and be able to close the terminal:

nohup python3.8 twitch-recorder.py >/dev/null 2>&1 &

In order to kill the job, you first list them all:

jobs

The output should show something like this:

[1]+  Running                 nohup python3.8 twitch-recorder > /dev/null 2>&1 &

And now you can just kill the job:

kill %1

You can run the scipt from cmd or terminal, by simply going to the directory where the script is located at and using command:

python twitch-recorder.py

The optional parameters should work exactly the same as on Linux.