We’re excited to introduce a handful of new features that help developers build solutions to create, edit, and share short-form video content via Twitch clips. In September, we introduced a Twitch API endpoint to enable Clip downloads. Today, we are expanding third-party Clip capabilities with improvements to the existing Create Clip endpoint and the new endpoint in open beta to create clips from VODs.
What’s new for Create Clip?
First, it’s worth mentioning that our updates to Create Clip do not affect existing usage of the endpoint. Developers are now able to take advantage of the following additive features at their convenience.
- 2k video (if applicable)
- Vertical video from dual format streams (if applicable)
- An optional parameter to specify a title
- An optional parameter to specify duration
- An updated edit URL in the response with more features:
- Exporting to third-party social platforms
- Creating a portrait version of the clip
- Downloading landscape and portrait versions of the clip
We have also removed the former “has_delay” parameter, which did not have an effect on the resulting clip.
Introducing Clips From VODs
Sometimes you can’t get a clip just right in the moment while streaming. Streamers and viewers have been able to clip from VODs on Twitch, but we’re bringing this feature to the Twitch API. Now that developers can clip from VODs given a video ID, this will unlock new use cases for post-stream moment detection and editing solutions. We believe this will result in more quality Clips for streamers to showcase their key moments with the community.
In fact, a live stream is technically a VOD in the making. This means that the endpoint can also be used to create clips from a time earlier in the current stream if VODs are enabled for the channel.
We look forward to seeing the innovative clip features developers create with these new additions.