Twitch Recover

Though YouTube has dwindled some of Twitch's influence in the livestreaming platform space, the latter still reigns as the premier place where people go to watch their streams. The popularity of Twitch's content creators is most likely among the causes for that, just as much as the platform's culture, which is very much distinct from YouTube's.

If you wish to download some of your favorite stream VODs, or perhaps store some of the clips and highlights of your favorite livestreams on your computer, Twitch Recover can help. It's a Command-line tool that, besides the aforementioned functions, allows users to check for copyrighted segments and unmute them, and even batch-download all the clips from a livestream.

As this is a Command-line tool, you might expect something quite complicated to operate without prior knowledge. That isn't at all the case here, as the program is surprisingly easy to navigate and make use of. You're pretty much guided through everything you do, with each instruction on the why's and wherefores of an option providing just enough detail to understand its prerogatives.

To start off, users can have the program fetch an M3U8 stream link of their favorite livestream, which makes it possible to play the stream from your desktop, through your media player of choice. Getting links to VODs, downloading them, and even recovering them — where applicable — is just as easy. The same goes for stream highlights, videos, and clips. Before downloading anything, you can choose the preferred video quality.

Some segments of a past livestream may be muted, and this is primarily caused by copyrighted audio. Twitch Recover makes quick work of that by effectively unmuting those parts, so that you can enjoy the stream in full.

Another neat function is the ability to download sub-only VODs, which can come in quite handy for some users.

Twitch Recover is quite a versatile program for your Twitch stream downloading needs: downloading clips, VODs, and highlights is as straightforward as can be, and the ability to unmute copyrighted streams is a nice bonus.