How to download Twitch clips from other streamers (when Twitch shows you no download button)

You found a great moment on someone else's Twitch channel and want to keep it, but there is no download button under the clip. That is not a fault on your side. Twitch gives its download button to only two people for each clip. This guide shows who they are, the three ways to get a clip when you are not one of them, the steps on a PC, an iPhone and Android, and what you may do with the file afterwards. The rules here come from Twitch's own help page, terms and developer reference, all read on 11 October 2026, and every test was run that day.

Who can download a Twitch clip on Twitch itself

Only the streamer and the person who made the clip can download it on Twitch. Twitch's help page says it in two sentences: "You can download landscape or portrait versions of clips of your channel. You can download landscape or portrait versions of clips you created." There is no third sentence for everyone else.

The editors' row is new. Twitch's developer reference lists an endpoint called Get Clips Download, marked "NEW". It needs a token with the editor:manage:clips or channel:manage:clips permission, and it refuses everyone else with "The user is not an editor for the specified broadcaster." Twitch also warns that its download links "are temporary".

Popular guides get this wrong in both directions. One of today's top results says "Twitch allows both streamers and viewers to download Twitch streams and clips". That is not true for viewers. Another says you can download a clip "only if you created it", which forgets the streamer.

The person who made a clip is usually a viewer, not the streamer. On 11 October 2026 we looked at the most viewed clip of the week on three big channels, shroud, summit1g and KaiCenat. All three were made by viewers: Madory_, alexthurm and umayneverkno. So for most popular clips, the one person who has Twitch's button is a stranger from the chat.

Three ways to get a clip from another streamer

You have three routes: make your own clip of the moment, ask someone who has the button, or copy the link into a clip downloader. The first two stay fully inside Twitch. The third is the only one that gets you the exact clip everyone is sharing, right now.

1. Clip the moment yourself, then download it

If you make a clip, Twitch treats you as its maker, and the maker gets the download button. Twitch's help page describes the steps:

1. Sign in to Twitch and open the live stream or the past broadcast with the moment.
2. Press the clip button in the video player.
3. Set the length "up to 60 seconds, by using the slider underneath the video player", add a title and publish it.
4. Open the Creator Dashboard, then Content, then Clips. Your clip is under Clips I've Created, with a download for the wide and the tall copy.

This works on most channels, but not all. Twitch says "All logged-in viewers and streamers can create clips of any channel" only if the streamer allows clips of live streams and past broadcasts, and has not turned on Followers-only or Subscribers-only clipping. Three more catches:

• It is a new clip. It has its own link and its own views, not the popular clip you saw.
• The past broadcast must still exist. Twitch deletes past broadcasts after 7 to 60 days; see how long Twitch keeps them.
• The streamer stays in charge. Streamers "see clips you make, and have the ability to ban you or time you out or delete your clip". You can edit or delete your own clip only "up until the channel owner edits, features or exports" it.

We could not test this route in a signed-in account during this run, so the steps above are Twitch's own, not ours.

2. Ask the person who has the button

The clip page shows who made the clip. Send that person, or the streamer, a message and ask for the file. It is slow, and they may not answer. But it is the only route that also settles permission, which matters if you want to post the clip somewhere else.

3. Copy the link into a clip downloader

A clip downloader reads the public clip and gives you the same files Twitch plays, without a login. With Raptor:

1. Open the clip, press Share, then Copy Link.
2. Paste it on our Twitch clip downloader and press Download.
3. Pick a size, or Vertical for the 9:16 copy.
4. The MP4 file goes to your downloads folder.

Here is how every route compares:

Step by step on a PC, iPhone or Android

The steps are the same everywhere: copy the clip's link, paste it, pick a file. What changes is where the file lands. Our guide to the website shows every button.

On a PC or Mac

In the browser, open the clip and press Share, then Copy Link. You can also copy the address from the address bar. Paste it on the Twitch clip page, press Download and pick a size. The file goes to your Downloads folder.

With our browser extension, you do not need to copy anything. On a clip page, point at the video and press the Download button that appears on it. Or click the Raptor button in the toolbar and choose Clip or past broadcast, or right-click and choose Download with Raptor. If our Windows or Mac app is running, the link goes straight to the app. If it is not, the website opens with the link ready.

On an iPhone

In the Twitch app, tap Share, then Copy link. Open Safari, paste the link on the Twitch clip page and press Download. The file goes to the Files app, under Downloads. To put it in Photos, open it there, tap Share, then Save Video. iPhones play the HEVC video Twitch clips now use; our iPhone guide explains what to do when Save Video is missing.

On Android

In the Twitch app, tap Share, then Copy link. Open Chrome, paste the link and press Download. The file goes to the Download folder. Where Chrome saves the file shows how to find it and get it into your gallery.

Where the file goes

Which file to pick: size and the vertical copy

Pick the largest wide size to watch on a computer or edit, and the Vertical button for TikTok, Shorts or Reels. Twitch keeps several sizes of each clip. When we measured 24 popular clips for our clip downloader's key facts on 5 October 2026, all 24 went up to 1080p, and 8 also had 1440p. Clips ran at 60 frames a second from 720p up.

Since August 2024, Twitch has also made a tall 9:16 copy of every clip itself, cropped to the layout the streamer chose. All 24 clips we measured had one. So you do not need an editing app to crop the wide video again; that only loses picture quality. Every Twitch clip is two videos explains the two copies.

Two things to know before you choose:

• Bigger than the original adds nothing. A tool that offers "4K" for a 1080p clip only stretches the picture.
• Clips use HEVC video now, at every size we checked. If a file plays sound but shows no picture, see the fix for HEVC files.

Clip links that work, and links that are not clips

Every common form of a clip link leads to the same clip. On 11 October 2026 we tried seven forms of one KaiCenat clip, and all seven read the same clip. The part after /clip/ is the clip's name, for example AstuteKawaiiHerbsSpicyBoy-yXpye-zl3Sf314sb.

Captions burned into a clip

A downloader cannot take captions out of a clip, because they are part of the picture Twitch made. Only the streamer can change them, and only for a short time. Twitch's help page gives the rules:

• Clips made with the "Clip That" voice command or by Auto Clips "include captions by default".
• Other clips have captions only "if 'Add Captions' was selected at creation".
• The streamer and the channel's editors can turn captions on or off, or fix the wording, "within 30 days of creation. After 30 days, captions are locked."
• "Auto Clips created before July 14, 2026 have captions permanently embedded in the video and cannot be removed."

So if you want a clip without captions, you have two options. Ask the streamer to turn them off while the clip is less than 30 days old. Or make your own clip of the moment and leave Add Captions unticked. We have not measured whether captions that a streamer turns on later also appear in a downloaded file, so we make no promise either way.

The inspect element trick, tested in October 2026

The old "inspect element" trick no longer gives you a lasting file. Older guides tell you to open the browser's developer tools, find the .mp4 address, or change the end of the preview picture's address from -preview-480x272.jpg to .mp4. We tested this on 11 October 2026 on the top clip of the week from three channels:

The preview pictures also have new addresses that end in thumb-0000000000-1920x1080.jpg, so there is no -preview-480x272.jpg left to change. Inspect element can still find the working signed address. But it is the same wide file a downloader gives you, without the choice of sizes or the vertical copy, and in all three clips it stopped working 72,000 seconds (20 hours) after we read it. Do not share it as a lasting link.

Can you repost a clip you did not make?

Only through Twitch's own share buttons, or with the streamer's permission. Twitch's terms give you a personal licence that "does not permit" (b) "distribution, public performance or public display of any Materials", or (e) "downloading (except page caching) ... except as expressly permitted on the Twitch Services". The terms were last modified on 12 August 2026.

Twitch's share features are the permitted route. Its help page says: "If a streamer has turned on the setting, you can also directly post their clips to your TikTok account." The same goes for YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat. On TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat "the streamer's channel name will be auto-hashtagged in your post and it cannot be removed". If your Share menu shows only links, the streamer has not allowed direct posting. Sharing the clip's link is always fine.

For anything else:

• Ask first. A yes in writing from the streamer settles it.
• Credit is not permission. Writing "all credit to the streamer" under a repost does not make it allowed.
• Keep it private. A clip you save to watch yourself is the lowest-risk use. Our article on saving versus reusing a video explains why.

Raptor only reads public clips. It never signs in to Twitch, and it does not get around Followers-only or Subscribers-only settings, subscriber-only videos or deleted clips. You are responsible for how you use what you save; see our terms. This is general information, not legal advice.

When it does not work

Most failures have a plain cause: the clip was deleted, the link is not a clip, or the streamer limits clipping. Find what you see below.

For other messages, our list of download errors and their fixes covers every site.