As a professional software developer I need my features to be 100% working. Fact is, the 'feature' does not work 100% of the time. Some of you, though, had major issues where the download just crashed with an error. There may be some of you who never had any issue whatsoever. Yes, I understand live video download works most of the time. Some are minor things, some have simply to do with morality and some are straight up legal issues that break the law and Twitch ToS. So here are the issues I have with this 'feature'. It accidentally just worked most of the time. I have never thought about live video download, ever. And I am still pretty surprised because this was nothing more than a happy (and now sad) little accident. Actually I did not know until a couple weeks ago, how often this 'livestream download feature' was being used. I started TL in 2015 for myself in order to be able to download my own streams, because back then Twitch did not have such a feature. As for the latter: I don't care about you and you are better off closing the browser right now or you are welcome to join the blocked list of this repository.ĭownloading live streams was never a feature I thought about when implementing anything. Following the feedback so far, some of you will understand, some will be disappointed, some will be frustrated and some of you will straight up hate and insult me. There are several reasons for it which I like to share. Please also refrain from opening up new issues about the same topic.įirst off, this was a deliberate decision and not some kind of mistake. There was already a too heated argument here on GitHub and I will not allow to start anything alike over again.

What I will not do, though, is debate this again.

If you like what you will be reading or not is for you to decide, I know that. So I want to explain my decision real 'quick'. Meaning you cannot download anything from a stream that is currently live.

The download button in the search result view is desabled if the video is currently streamed live There are some questions, frustration and even hate out there because of the following entry in the release notes of Twitch Leecher 2.0.2:

Is twitch leecher legit