twitch-dl chat

Render chat for a given video.

This command is experimental and may change in the future!

twitch-dl chat [OPTIONS] ID

-w, --width INTEGER	Chat width in pixels [default: `400`]
-h, --height INTEGER	Chat height in pixels [default: `1080`]
--font-size INTEGER	Font size [default: `20`]
--dark	Dark mode
--pad-x INTEGER	Horizontal padding [default: `5`]
--pad-y INTEGER	Vertical padding [default: `5`]
-o, --output TEXT	Output file name template. See docs for details. [default: `chat_{id}.{format}`]
-f, --format TEXT	Video format to convert into, passed to ffmpeg as the target file extension. [default: `mp4`]
--overwrite	Overwrite the target file if it already exists without prompting.
--json	Print data as JSON rather than human readable text

Experimental command

Chat command is still experimental and things may change.

This command requires twitch-dl to be installed with optional "chat" dependencies:

pipx install "twitch-dl[chat]"

It is not available if twitch-dl is used from the pyz archive.

Here's an example how you can join a twitch stream with its chat in a single video.

First download the video in the desired quality:

twitch-dl download -q 1080p 2237172069 -o video.mp4

Render the chat with the same height as the downloaded video:

twitch-dl chat --dark --width 500 --height 1080 2237172069 -o chat.mp4

Stitch them togheter using ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i chat.mp4 -filter_complex hstack=inputs=2 chat_with_video.mp4