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Bugfixes

• Error while searching for videos older than 2019
• The creation of subfolders for favourite channels does not work if mp4 conversion is disabled

Bugfixes

• An error gets thrown when clicking the download button if there is no quality marked as "Source" in the video playlist

Bugfixes

• Twitch Leecher fails to load runtime data and starts up with an empty view

Changes

• Twitch Leecher now checks for an already open instance on startup and brings it to the front if necessary

Changes

• Added "Audio Only" to the default quality list
• Optimized the default quality selection for non-transcoded videos
• Disabled the creation of an internal browser logfile

Fixed Bugs

• If you want to download a sub-only video and sub-only support is enabled, a warning appears stating that sub-only support is disabled

Changes

• Improved error handling if TL cannot get an authentication token for a video

Important Info

With the old Twitch API V5 shutting down on February 28th 2022, Twitch Leecher now uses the new Helix API. Other than the open V5 API, the new Helix API requires user authentication. For this reason you now need to connect Twitch Leecher with your Twitch account. The only purpose of this connection is retrieving the necessary authentication token. No user data or personal information gets collected or shared.

Breaking Changes

• The filename template gets reset to "{year}{month}{day}_{channel}_{id}"
• Filename wildcards {game} and {fps} have been removed (not available in new API)
• Filename wildcards {date}, {time} and {time24} have been substituted (see new features)

Removed Features

• Removed video resolution in search result view (not available in new API)
• Removed game icon and name in search result view (not available in new API)
• Removed game name in downloads view (not available in new API)
• Removed fps for source quality in download dialog (not available in new API)
• Removed view count in downloads view

New Features

• Sub-Only video download support is available again. You need to enable it separately with the "Star"-button in the header
• You can now set a default quality for video downloads in the preferences
• New indicator in the search result view showing if the video has muted parts
• New indicator in the search result view showing if the video is currently streamed live
• The download button in the search result view is desabled if the video is currently streamed live
• A warning is displayed in the download dialog if you try to download a video with muted parts whilst having mp4 conversion enabled
• If a video url contains a start time parameter (e.g. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/{id}?t=1h09m56s), the crop start time in the download dialog is set to that time
• New filename wildcards for date parts: {year}, {month} and {day}
• New filename wildcards for time parts: {hr24}, {hr}, {min}, {sec} and {apm}

Bugfixes

• Fixed brokern installer of Twitch Leecher 2.0
• Check the maximum temporary folder length when preferences are saved
• Wrong text encoding messes up unicode characters in titles
• Check for active downloads before disabling sub-only support

Changes

• Updated FFMPEG to version 5.0
• Updated Xceed control library to version 4.2

Fixed Bugs

• In the download view every download now has its own "Open Download Folder" button
• The "Channel Name" textfield would not show an error message if the channel does not exist
• Removed an assembly reference that made TL 1.8.3 crash on Windows 7
• In the update info view show the new TL version in format X.Y.Z

Changes

• Updated FFMPEG to version 4.3.2

Fixed Bugs

• Error 404 when clicking the "Download" button (Twitch API change)

Fixed Bugs

• Changes made by Twitch on September 1st, 2020 resulted in Twitch Leecher beeing unable to download certain videos
• When creating a mp4 file, the audio stream was not copied from the source stream but re-encoded to a standard format
• Searching for video urls containing "video" instead of "videos" was not possible

ATTENTION - BREAKING CHANGE TO SUB-ONLY VIDEOS

If you have downloaded sub-only videos in the past, you probably came across the infamous 410 (gone) error. With this release Twitch Leecher is not capable of downloading sub-only videos anymore. Twitch changed the way those videos can be accessed. At this point we have to respect Twitch for taking care of the streamers' rights to protect their content.

I know there are some tools out there that still work in certain conditions and there are some workarounds that also make it possible to download sub-only content for a short period of time with older versions of Twitch Leecher.

Those tools or workarounds use either very dirty and hacky code that is extremely prone to fail in the future or they do not work in every scenario (2-factor authentication with the Authy app for example). I want to provide a good and alyways working tool for my users so I refrain from implementing such functionality.

If you think you found a good workaround, please don't post a new issue or send me an email unless you have read and understood the following GitHub issue from top to bottom: Issue #419

Changes

• The login system has been completely removed since it was only required for sub-only videos
• The Installer does not install .NET Framework 4.8 automatically anymore since the automaic installation process caused problems on various systems in the past. You need to make sure .NET Framework 4.8 is already installed before running the Twitch Leecher installer, otherwise it will fail with a message telling you to install it first.

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HINT

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 is part of Windows 10 version 1903 and above

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