Twitch recently announced a 100-hour storage limit for Highlights and will be deleting anything outside the limit on April 19th, 2025.  This is, of course, alarming as many speedrun submissions make use of Twitch highlights.

# Downloading Runs At Risk

Before I dive into the rest of the article, I would like to spotlight a community effort to mitigate the damage caused by Twitch’s actions here. A sincere thank you to @Matse007 and the team behind the Speedrun Rescue Script which detects runs submitted (either from a specific individual or for a whole game) with Twitch Highlights and downloads them for you. With your footage safely preserved, you can re-upload your runs to another platform and update your submissions as needed. At the very least, this script ensures that the valuable content you’ve worked hard to capture remains accessible to you.

[You can get it from the Github page here, alongside the installation instructions.](https://github.com/Matse007/SpeedrunRescueScript)

![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXf7VPdIDDg0u-BzbdpG9VcE_xenHcsOBwisYIn85awtk48SvMZAHQwOs9kcv8kmRXeVtt0UGdblLG1eGIC6t0TfAQ5soJtcU1nmZMSTUIV_2Wty1qTASnvLxZEbE2-NB51eh5bq?key=uq53moH6c6uD_CQPJZjukOHE)

The Speedrun Rescue Script requires installing Python and some other dependencies, so it might not be the most beginner-friendly - but if you’re comfortable with a more technical setup, it’s the best option for backing up all of your runs that are potentially at risk.

If you’re not comfortable with the more technical approach, [Clipr.xyz](https://clipr.xyz/) offers a web-based option for downloading individual VODs. This tool works in a pinch if you only need to save a handful of VODs.

![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeD8I35HWNZaxXjneeptn7oDVP2ZBwyvtB6pJJ-DuxAxgpcEA_hSr86KBZl1GiIxt_N4MT7Eau4TmKN2uin1MNjmim5U0GhhxACWm74kzCsB04euDuK_AttSoxFeFh4AT_R8W2E?key=uq53moH6c6uD_CQPJZjukOHE)

You can also export VODs directly to YouTube right from within the Twitch Video Producer, although it’s worth noting it’s only one at a time and quite slow.

![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfL1ycfd-_mBPJ_aybnbGqdBB59S7lFf6jNQ_ASz1Jqhgrsz-3PkzTEqC_72E-ClF9XmTkRDrsuf-UQnBHHEiHhDhmn6k0uFeO_cfhfK113GfAKNtcPUHiseY-uN4eRwqu2fuTFrg?key=uq53moH6c6uD_CQPJZjukOHE)

If you have any other suggestions or know of alternative tools, please share them in the comments - I’ll review them all and potentially add them to the article.

# Highlight Lock

Adding to the urgency, Twitch is preventing users from creating new Highlights until their stored content is below the 100-hour limit - meaning many runners with **hundreds or even thousands of hours of archived footage** are currently unable to save their runs. **For many, sorting through that amount of content is completely unreasonable.**

# A Troubling Pattern - Long-Term Solutions

With the short-term stuff out of the way - let’s talk long-term. Those of you who have been around for a few years may remember similar previous events with YouTube’s unlisted videos and with older Imgur content (frequently used for guides). This is a disturbing pattern that is repeatedly threatening the history of our community.

While we don’t have immediate answers, I wanted to let you know that we are *very* well aware of the situation at hand and are **actively discussing long-term solutions to protect speedrunning history** from similar issues in the future. If you have ideas you would like us to consider, by all means, feel free to drop them in the comments for me to review.

# A message to Runners and Moderators 

We understand that many runners will be re-submitting potentially dozens of runs in the near future. Please be patient with your moderators, as they will be handling a significant influx of submissions while also balancing the rest of their responsibilities outside of speedrunning.

Moderators, once things have settled, we kindly ask that you refrain from deleting any run submissions that were previously verified with video proof, even if the footage was later removed by Twitch.

# Conclusion

This situation is frustrating as hell - but it’s also a reminder of how resilient and resourceful the speedrunning community is. While Twitch’s changes put years of history at risk, efforts like the Speedrun Rescue Script show that we’re not powerless. In the short term, take action to back up your runs, and in the long term, let’s work together to find solutions that protect our community’s archives.

Please be sure to thank the team behind Speedrun Rescue Script personally or in the comments.

We’ll keep you updated as we explore better ways to safeguard speedrun history. In the meantime, **if you have any other tools, insights, or ideas, drop them in the comments** - we're all in this together :)

### *Cam // Meta - Speedrun.com Community Manager*

Let's talk about Twitch and their 100 Hour Limit.

Twitch Highlight Limit & Speedruns At Risk

I'm glad to hear you are seriously paying attention to the long term and not considering Youtube the *cure* here. My long-term "suggestion" (currently: question) is in this direction: have you attempted communication with Twitch or Youtube? Can we get *them* as the current hosts of speedrun footage to take this activity seriously and give us some guarantee about its preservation? I'm sure many people are complaining about the storage limit as individuals, but I imagine the entity of speedrun.com to have more potential leverage about this.

Other than that, to what extent could Internet Archive be used meaningfully for speedrun storage?

God, many things to process here (also from your notes). And many questions appear for me about what parts are optimal to have or not. I'm glad to see the buying off came into play, I was surprised myself, but indeed, screw the cargo missions, even if it wasn't beneficial I'd still probably buy them off. I'm also aware of the achievements + landing money strat, but haven't strategized it much besides quickly doubling the 15/30 day achievements. The rest is also interesting, the tutorial skips took me off by surprise! This game really is taking off, GG!

My man. <3

(also srcom please delete the comments function already, who uses this)

Segmented runs are not allowed, for fullgame runs on sr.com leaderboards you need a full run in one sitting. However, you could use segmented runs for strategy and guide making, so you can post these here or under Guides, if you think they show something particularly valuable for a fullgame run.

On another topic, I guess missions could be called "individual levels", but I personally would be against making IL leaderboards for them, the reason being that the most optimal way to play them would be from a full save with Power Mode but that kinda brings them down to grinding and luck.

What do you mean by "can we do it"? If you mean whether it’s allowed in all categories, then yes; if you mean if it’s possible to execute in all of 1.0/1.1/1.2, then not quite, since together with the invisible wall fix Kaze made it as good as impossible to BLJ from ceilings (they push you slightly away if you go too close), so that BLJ is definitely out in 1.2.