Record Twitch.tv shows on Windows, Ubuntu 18.04+ (or similar)
In essence, this is a CLI wrapper to call streamlink. As of writing this, it offers more reliable recordings by auto-retrying if connection is lost or the stream disconnects.
Allows you to set a duration (optional) and a time until recording (optional).
There are files with .py for both windows/linux, a linux shell .sh script + cronjob and a windows batch .bat + scheduled task.
Initially created to record Critical Role. One feature is to parse the website http://wheniscriticalrole.com to see when the show airs.
❯ python3 record.py --help
usage: record.py [-h] [-u URL] [-o OUT_DIR] [-s SLEEP_TIME] [-n] [--offset OFFSET]
Process arguments
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-u URL, --url URL url to twitch channel
-o OUT_DIR, --out OUT_DIR
directory where to save video
-s SLEEP_TIME, --sleep SLEEP_TIME
time to sleep in seconds before recording starts
-n, --now start recording right now
--offset OFFSET amount of minutes to start recording before stream is online. Default is 5
- Package with PyInstall. Has support for python3+, Windows and Linux, one file executable
- Rewriting below scripts into python only
- Read time until critical role from website
- Update cronjob to launch python script in virtualenv
(optional) Selenium with Firefox driver to parse wheniscriticalrole.com
(example) python3 record.py -u twitch.tv/criticalrole -w 3600 -o outdir
Omitting `-n` or `-w` option defaults to using Selenium to parse the above
mentioned website and gets the most accurate time automatically. You will need
Selenium and a Firefox driver available in your Path