Twitch VOD Archive Storage

Twitch VOD archive storage is the durable home for broadcasts after they leave the platform. Twitch removes most VODs within 14 to 60 days — the longer window only for Partners, Turbo, and Prime subscribers — so the recording you want to keep disappears unless you export it first. files.link is where that exported VOD lives afterward: upload the finished recording you own and get a permanent URL with global CDN replay.

It is not a Twitch downloader, a live ingest endpoint, or a transcoding pipeline — you export the VOD yourself from your own channel, and files.link gives that authorized stream archive a permanent home that Twitch's clock never deletes.

The same workflow covers every creator-owned replay source, so this is one platform-agnostic page rather than a thin duplicate for every service. A YouTube live replay you exported from your own channel, an OBS-to-RTMP capture, a Kick or managed-ingest recording, or a talk you hold the rights to all upload the same way — this is stream archive storage framed for creators and teams who own their recordings.

For the general at-rest framing see VOD archive storage, the parent live stream archive page covers the broadcast-retention angle, and stream archive hosting frames the same job as hosting completed broadcasts.

The upload path is a scriptable three-call REST flow: POST /v1/files/{folderId} returns a presigned url and an id, you PUT the recording bytes straight to storage, then POST /v1/files/confirm-upload with {ids:[...]}. Auth is your raw API key, so a post-stream hook can auto-host every broadcast the moment your export finishes encoding — Twitch VOD archive storage becomes one curl in your pipeline instead of a manual upload.

Name files by date and title, keep this month's busy replays on the standard tier for instant playback, and move rarely-watched back catalog to the cold storage tier (note its minimum retention) to shrink the bill on a growing livestream archive.

The reason to move stream archives off the platform is cost, permanence, and control. Per-minute video products (Mux-style) meter every minute stored and every minute delivered, which punishes a deep archive nobody watches all at once; files.link bills prepaid credits against storage and bandwidth with no per-minute meter, and replays stream from a nearby CDN edge.

Keep members-only or paid replays private behind short-lived signed URLs your backend mints per viewer, so a link stops resolving once the access window closes. If you just want a lightweight public replay link for a clip, the Streamable alternative page frames the same storage for quick shareable video, and live stream replay storage focuses on replay links for webinars, events, and course videos.

A word on scope and honesty. files.link is neutral storage infrastructure for recordings you own or are authorized to archive — your own Twitch and YouTube VODs, your team's events, talks and clips you hold the rights to. Only store streams you own or have explicit permission to keep, and honor takedown requests for anything you do not. files.link is not the old StreamArchive-style scraper that grabbed other broadcasters' deleted VODs without consent, it has no connection to any third-party streamarchive or CastCache service, and it never downloads, records, or pulls streams from any platform on your behalf.

You export the finished VOD yourself; files.link gives that authorized Twitch VOD archive a permanent, CDN-backed home.