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Create your livestreams backup library

The script autoTwitchToYouTube was created to record a broadcast from the Twitch platform on YouTube, in order to watch the stream later. Broadcasts are downloaded in best quality, no transcoding, the stream is directly sent back to YouTube. With the use of shell pipe, no video is store in disk. What you need is the username of the Twitch channel, every minute the shell script check if a broadcast has started.

No local disk use
Video uploaded to YouTube in live

Installation

PM2

pm2 is use to daemon the shell script.

apt-get install npm
npm install pm2 -g
pm2 startup

Dependencies: Streamlink and YouTubeUploader

apt-get install python3-pip tar
pip3 install --upgrade streamlink

You have to download the last release of the pre-compiled YouTubeUploader using their Github: https://github.com/porjo/youtubeuploader

tar -xvf youtubeuploader_linux_amd64.tar.gz
mv youtubeuploader_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/youtubeuploader

Download autoTwitchToYouTube

git clone "https://github.com/arnicel/autoTwitchToYouTube.git"
cd autoTwitchToYouTube

Finish setup

Last step, set up your credentials to allow YouTubeUploader to upload videos to the YouTube platform. You need to create a Google API application on the Google console. After, your application created, YouTube API V3 activated, and OAuth 2.0 configured, download your client secret to "./client_secrets.json" from: https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/dashboard Check directly the documentation of YouTubeUploader for more information

Finish setup of YouTubeUploader:

youtubeuploader -headlessAuth -filename <any file>

Use

Define the Twitch Username

This is the name of the Twitch user whose broadcast will be automatically uploaded to YouTube.

export ATY_TWITCH_USER=<username>

Start autoTwitchToYouTube

pm2 start autoTwitchToYouTube.sh --name $ATY_TWITCH_USER
pm2 save