Twitch Channel Video DownloaderBrowse a channel's VODs & clips — no exact URL needed

A bare channel name is tried as a live stream first: the page asks Twitch for a live playback token for that login and, if the whole lookup succeeds, loads the recorder and never draws the browse list. Recording then runs until you press Stop, until the broadcast ends, or until the built-in three-hour limit closes and saves the file — at which point you can start again for another three hours. The picker of past videos is the fallback: it appears only when that live lookup fails at any step. One input, two different screens, decided by whether the stream is up.

The picker is a single request that asks Twitch for two lists at once. One returns 24 past broadcasts, newest first, with a Load more button — shown only while Twitch reports another page — that fetches the next 24 into the same grid. The other returns the twelve most-viewed clips, with a switch for today, this week, this month or all time that re-queries just the clip grid. Only archived past broadcasts are requested, so highlights and uploaded videos do not appear. Open those on Twitch and paste the twitch.tv/videos/... link instead.

The time-left badge is arithmetic done in the page, not a field Twitch supplies: the publish date measured against 60 days when the channel holds the Partner role, 14 days when it holds the Affiliate role and 7 days when it holds neither, rounded up to whole days. It only draws at 14 days or fewer and switches to "expires soon" once the estimate has run out. Prime and Turbo stretch basic retention to 60 days, but only the Partner and Affiliate roles are requested, so those channels are still counted against 7 days and the badge warns earlier than it needs to. Broadcasts pulled in by Load more carry no badge at all — the role is not passed through on that follow-up request.

Selecting a card writes that video's URL into the input field — twitch.tv/videos/<id> for a broadcast, clips.twitch.tv/<slug> for a clip — and immediately starts the analyzer, which hides the list. To pick a second item, type the channel name again or work from a second tab. Selection can also dead-end: a past broadcast that is sub-only, deleted or private cannot be loaded, the page reports it as unavailable, and nothing in the thumbnail grid marks it beforehand.