# Twitch API Exporting Videos

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-api-exporting-videos/33902>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [October 7, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-api-exporting-videos/33902 "2021-10-07T20:13:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![slurpwaffl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@slurpwaffl](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/slurpwaffl)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-api-exporting-videos/33902/1 "2021-10-07T20:13:51Z")

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In searching, I found a number of partially related questions about exporting to youtube.

From the docs, it doesn’t seem that there is functionality to export/upload one of my own broadcasts to youtube.

If I am correct that this functionality does not exist, I would like to say it would be a very useful addition (for me).

Thanks

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**Author:** ![BarryCarlyon](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/barrycarlyon/32/253_2.png) [@BarryCarlyon](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BarryCarlyon)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-api-exporting-videos/33902/2 "2021-10-07T20:16:24Z")

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> [@slurpwaffl](#):
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> From the docs, it doesn’t seem that there is functionality to export/upload one of my own broadcasts to youtube.
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> If I am correct that this functionality does not exist, I would like to say it would be a very useful addition (for me).

This functionality is built into Twitch.

It’s not a “third party thing” hence not in the docs

See this help document for information on this

[https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/video-on-demand?language=en\_US](https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/video-on-demand?language=en_US)

Specifically “Export”

> Your Twitch account can be connected to a YouTube account via your [Connections](https://link.twitch.tv/myConnections) page. Once your accounts are connected, you can use the **Export** option to upload your videos to YouTube directly from Twitch without having to download them locally.

Additioanally first party feature requests should go to the uservoice [https://twitch.uservoice.com/](https://twitch.uservoice.com/) but this is already implementated anyway

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**Author:** ![slurpwaffl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@slurpwaffl](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/slurpwaffl)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-api-exporting-videos/33902/3 "2021-10-07T20:21:56Z")

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I am specifically asking that it be available to the Twitch REST API, I know it exists via the GUI.

My use-case is that I want to write a little script that can grab all my past vods and then just export them all.

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**Author:** ![BarryCarlyon](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/barrycarlyon/32/253_2.png) [@BarryCarlyon](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BarryCarlyon)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-api-exporting-videos/33902/4 "2021-10-07T20:23:56Z")

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Then you’d probably use local record to get the videos  
Then upload those to YouTube via the YouTube API instead.

Or whenever you end a stream, got to your vods and tell it to export.  
Then it’s jsut part of your “end of stream tasklist”.

For anything else you’ll need a feature request for “controlling the export process”

[https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310213-developers](https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310213-developers)

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2opxh93rbxzdn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-api-exporting-videos/33902/5 "2021-11-06T20:24:09Z")

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