Why won't this application work on macOS

[TAYMERRR1]

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• I am running the latest version (download here)

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When I download the application for mac it just gives me a bunch of code and no application to use for downloading the VOD or the chat. Fix or help??

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(MacOS related issue)

[ScrubN]

You are downloading the source code for the project. To use the binary executable, please refer to the usage guide for MacOS in the readme. The guide assumes you know how to use a terminal and terminal commands such as cd

[TAYMERRR1]

No I downloaded the CLI for mac and I have no clue how to fix this issue I'm not so big on commands but I need help further and a more simplified solution

[ScrubN]

Open a new terminal window. You can use spotlight search to do this with cmd + space, type terminal and press enter.

From there, use the command ls to list out the folders you can move to. If the CLI is in your downloads folder, type cd Downloads. If it is on your desktop, type cd Desktop. If the CLI is in further subfolders, i.e. Downloads/TwitchDownloaderCLI then after moving to the downloads folder type cd TwitchDownloaderCLI.

After that please type chmod +x TwitchDownloaderCLI to give the binary the ability to execute.

You likely do not already have FFmpeg, so you can use TDCLI to download it with ./TwitchDownloaderCLI ffmpeg -d.

Then you need to give FFmpeg executable rights with chmod +x ffmpeg.

And then you are ready to use TwitchDownloaderCLI. You can see a set of examples commands in the CLI README

[ScrubN]

Please be advised that there is a problem with the current MacOS version of TwitchDownloaderCLI (1.53.2). Instead of using relative paths, please use absolute paths.

For example, if you would like to download something to the desktop you would run

./TwitchDownloaderCLI videodownload --id 123456789 --output ~/Desktop

The ~ is a shortcut to your user folder, the parent folder of your downloads/desktop/documents/etc. folder.

Also if your output path contains a space, the whole path must be wrapped in ''s. --output '~/Desktop/Path With Spaces'

[SputNikPlop]

@ScrubN Tested the new arm64 as well as the x86_64 latest releases and they work better than the release here, this probably can be closed.