How to Get a Twitch Transcript (VOD, Chat & Spoken Audio)

Обновлено: 2026-07-06 · Автор — основатель vodfetch

Twitch doesn't give you a transcript button. Here are the real ways to get a text transcript of a Twitch VOD — the chat, and the spoken words.

Does Twitch have transcripts or subtitles?

Short answer: not really. Twitch has no built-in transcript or subtitle export for VODs. A few browser extensions can show auto-generated live captions while you watch, but Twitch itself doesn't store or hand you a transcript of a VOD's spoken audio, and there's no "download transcript" button anywhere in the interface.

So "getting a Twitch transcript" always means using a workaround. The right workaround depends on which transcript you actually want — and there are two very different kinds.

Two different things people call a 'Twitch transcript'

A chat transcript is a text log of everything typed in the stream's chat — messages, timestamps and usernames. People want this to find a moment, quote reactions, or archive their community.

A spoken transcript is the words the streamer actually said, turned into text — for subtitles, show notes, blog posts or repurposing a VOD into other content. These two need completely different tools, so decide which one you're after before you start.

How to get the chat transcript

Twitch keeps the chat replay attached to each VOD, and that replay can be exported as text. vodfetch downloads the full chat replay and saves it as a timestamped plain-text file — effectively a complete chat transcript you can open, search or archive.

Paste the VOD's twitch.tv/videos/… link into the Twitch chat downloader and download the chat replay. You get every message with its timestamp, no scrubbing through the video.

How to get a spoken (audio) transcript

Twitch won't give you the streamer's spoken words as text, so the honest route is two steps: get the audio, then transcribe it.

First, save the VOD's audio with vodfetch — it extracts a clean audio track (an .m4a/.aac file) from any Twitch VOD. Then run that audio file through a speech-to-text tool. Plenty are free, including open-source Whisper and the transcription features built into tools you may already use.

vodfetch itself doesn't do speech recognition — we're a downloader, not a transcription engine, and we'd rather be honest about that than pretend. But a clean audio file is exactly the input those transcription tools need, and extracting it is the step Twitch makes hard.

Which method should you use?

Want to quote chat messages, find a highlight, or archive community reactions? Use the chat transcript.

Want the streamer's words for subtitles, notes, a blog post or repurposing the VOD? Use the spoken transcript: extract the audio, then transcribe it. You can do both from the same VOD — download the chat replay and the audio, and you have the full picture of a stream in text.

Как скачать видео с Twitch

1. 1

   Copy the Twitch VOD URL

   Open the VOD on Twitch and copy its twitch.tv/videos/… link.

2. 2

   For the chat: download the replay as text

   Paste the link into the Twitch chat downloader and export the chat as a timestamped plain-text transcript.

3. 3

   For the speech: extract the audio, then transcribe

   Save the VOD's audio (an .m4a/.aac file), then run it through a free speech-to-text tool to turn the spoken words into text.

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