#Twitch leecher alternative how to#

From a legal standpoint Twitch Leecher is in an (accepted) grey area. But another thing is the following:Įven if I can download all sub-only videos without a token, I don't want to. So far I think you cannot choose the quality, though. That's used for the 'stepping through the video' when you hover your mouse over it. You can actually download videos without a token at all by using a hacky GQL endpoint giving you the live preview url of a video. Helix is stable, you know what you get, everything is documented.You're playing cat & mouse with Twitch.This looks promising at first but I have my reasons why I opted out: Use the 'private' GQL with OAuth for video download (sub-only or not).Use the 'public' GQL for metadata and totally scrap Helix.Now what you can do (and what many other tools like youtube-dl do) is: The initial login generates the Bearer token, the sub-only login generates the OAuth token. That's the reason why TL has to login again for sub-only video download. So here's the catch: You cannot get sub-only video access tokens from the 'private' GQL with Bearer tokens. 'private' GQL needs OAuth tokens for sub-only videos.The 'private' GQL endpoint that generates the access token. There is only one way to get video playlist access tokens (in order to download anything):

#Twitch leecher alternative how to#

There are 2 ways how to get metadata (videos, games, streams, clips, users and so on): The 'OAuth' token generated by the website login form.The 'Bearer' token generated by the Helix authentication endpoint.Let me try to get all the information about the API's compressed in a single post for future reference 😄 There are 2 types of access tokens: