Twitch Sub-Only & Full VOD Downloader

Sub-only and Turbo past broadcasts are served only to an authenticated session, which is why browser-based downloaders return an error on them. ViralMint runs yt-dlp locally, so it can use your own Twitch session: sign into the account that holds the sub in your browser, export cookies once via Settings → Cookies, and paste the VOD URL. yt-dlp presents your session to Twitch and resolves the HLS playlist exactly as it would for a public VOD. The cookies stay on your machine — nothing is uploaded.

Yes, and length is the second reason to do it locally. A 3-hour 1080p60 broadcast runs to tens of gigabytes, which is where cloud tools hit an upload limit, a render-queue cap or a quality downgrade. ViralMint downloads straight to your disk with no upload step, no per-file size cap and no re-encode, so the only ceiling is free space. There's no per-download limit either.

Yes. Download the full past broadcast, then use the Trim tool (or Clipper) to cut the segment you want — the trim is frame-accurate because ViralMint re-encodes the kept range with FFmpeg rather than copying between keyframes. For a long stream this is usually faster than hunting for a timestamped URL, since you can scrub the downloaded file locally.

That's the headline use case for a full broadcast. Download the VOD here, then open it in Clipper — Whisper transcribes the whole stream on your machine and the AI ranks segments by virality score with hook classification. You pick the clips, ViralMint exports them in 9:16 with captions burned in.

yt-dlp can record a live HLS stream but it's a different command path — ViralMint exposes this as a separate flow in the desktop app to avoid confusion. Look for 'Record live stream' in the download panel.

Yes. Public past broadcasts and Clips need no account, no cookies and no watermark — paste the URL and yt-dlp resolves it to a single mp4 at up to source bitrate, typically 1080p60. Cookies are only needed for the sub-only and Turbo case above.

The downloader saves the video itself — chat replay is a separate data feed Twitch serves alongside the VOD, and it isn't embedded in the mp4. If you want chat visible in your clips, the common creator workflow is to screen-capture the chat column separately and overlay it in an editor. For most Shorts/TikTok repurposing, burned-in captions from the VOD's own audio (which ViralMint generates locally with Whisper) outperform a chat overlay anyway.

No — once Twitch deletes a past broadcast (7–60 days after the stream depending on the channel's status), the video is gone from Twitch's servers and no downloader can recover it. Highlights the streamer created survive deletion, so check the channel's Highlights tab. The practical fix is to download VODs you care about soon after the stream ends.