Twitch streams happen live, but you cannot always be there when they do. Today we are launching Stream Archiving — the Twitch archival add-on inside TubePull Live. It records a broadcast in real time as it airs and saves it straight to your own Google Drive, so a stream you cared about is preserved even when you could not watch it live and even if you never touch a download button.
Stream Archiving is an add-on for TubePull Pro ($4.99/month) at $3.99/month more — $8.98/month total. It requires an active Pro subscription; it is not sold standalone or available on the free tier.
Quick start: Turn on Stream Archiving from the Twitch downloader page or your account settings for $3.99/month on top of TubePull Pro ($4.99/month) — $8.98/month total. Connect your Twitch channel and Google Drive once, and it archives every future live stream you are authorized to preserve — see below for what that covers and where the boundaries are.
Recorded live, not fetched after your stream ends
Most "Twitch archive" tools — including a plain VOD downloader — have to wait for your broadcast to end and for Twitch to finish publishing a VOD before there is anything to grab. Stream Archiving skips that wait. It subscribes to your channel's stream.online event through Twitch's EventSub webhook system, and the moment your channel goes live, TubePull's worker starts pulling the broadcast's HLS segments in real time and joining them into an MP4 as the stream plays out. By the time you end the broadcast, most of the file is already finished — there's no separate VOD-processing wait afterward, and a crash, a ban, or a stream that Twitch is slow to publish as a VOD doesn't leave you with nothing saved.
Creators can stream for hours, and important moments can pass before you have a chance to save them manually. Stream Archiving gives TubePull Pro subscribers a way to preserve live streams without babysitting every broadcast. Each archive captures up to 12 hours per broadcast, so a marathon or subathon stream is saved up to that mark. For the full mechanics — how the EventSub webhook triggers the job, how HLS segments get joined into one file, and where live capture's edges are — see How TubePull Twitch Archiving Actually Works: Recorded Live, Not After the Fact.
Use it for streams you have permission to archive, including:
- Your own Twitch broadcasts
- Client or team streams you manage
- Events and broadcasts you are authorized to preserve
- Streams you want to keep for editing, research, or personal reference
TubePull handles the archival so you can focus on the stream itself instead of scrambling to save it afterward.
Your own Google Drive, not TubePull's server
Every archive lands in a dedicated TubePull folder inside your own Google Drive — the file goes straight from Twitch's CDN to your Drive, and TubePull never keeps a separate copy on its own infrastructure. That matters because most hosted "stream archive" competitors do the opposite: they record into their own proprietary cloud and dangle "permanent" storage as the pitch, right up until you cancel your subscription or hit a plan cap, at which point your archive goes with it. With Stream Archiving, what's in your Drive stays yours regardless of what happens to your TubePull subscription, your storage plan, or TubePull itself later. If you already pay for Google One storage, your archives ride on space you're already renting instead of trusting a new vendor with your only copy.
Built for long-term access
Twitch VOD availability depends on the creator's account tier and Twitch's own retention rules — a stream that is easy to watch today may not stay available later. Base broadcasters get 7 days, Affiliates get 14, and Partners, Prime, and Turbo subscribers get 60 days before the VOD is gone for good. We covered exactly how those windows work in Archive Twitch Clips and VODs — Before the 14-Day Timer Runs Out and Twitch Clips vs VODs: What Expires, What Doesn't, and How to Save Both.
Recording live closes that gap before it opens — since the archive already exists in your Drive the moment the broadcast happens, you're never racing a delete timer you can't see. That helps when you want to:
- Save a broadcast before it expires
- Create highlights or shorter clips later
- Preserve a special event or milestone
- Maintain an archive of your own channel
- Keep source footage for editing and production
Already have one specific VOD or clip from before you turned archiving on? That's a separate, on-demand path: paste the URL into the Twitch downloader page and pull it manually. Clips are free on every tier; a manual VOD download needs TubePull Pro ($4.99/month), the same plan Stream Archiving rides on top of.
Simple add-on pricing
Stream Archiving costs $3.99/month on top of your TubePull Pro subscription — $8.98/month total, billed as one line item on your existing Pro subscription rather than a separate charge or a new account to manage. There is no standalone Stream Archiving plan and it is not available on the free tier.
The add-on is for people who need dependable Twitch archival without paying for a large, complicated creator suite. Full setup — Pro, connect Twitch, connect Google Drive, toggle the add-on on — is four steps, detailed on the Twitch downloader page.
Start archiving Twitch streams
Stream Archiving is available now for TubePull Pro subscribers. Visit the Twitch downloader page or your account settings to connect your channel and Google Drive and turn it on for $3.99/month on top of Pro — $8.98/month total — and start preserving the streams that matter to you.
Please archive only content you own or have permission to save. TubePull does not grant rights to copy, distribute, or reuse third-party content, and you are responsible for ensuring your use complies with Twitch's Terms of Service and your local copyright law.
More Twitch guides
- Download Twitch VODs and clips with TubePull — the Twitch downloader and Stream Archiving setup page
- How TubePull Twitch Archiving Actually Works: Recorded Live, Not After the Fact — the EventSub-to-Drive pipeline explained
- Archive Twitch Clips and VODs — Before the 14-Day Timer Runs Out — how VOD expiry works and the manual archival workflow
- Twitch Clips vs VODs: What Expires, What Doesn't, and How to Save Both — the retention rules, tier by tier