hoshinova VS ytarchive

hoshinova is a nice enough web frontend on top of ytarchive that allows you to monitor multiple channels, queue recording for additional URLs, and optionally filter based on keywords in the stream title. Monitoring in this tool is done by polling the channel's RSS feed. If you use this frontend you will likely want to use it with ytarchive 0.3.2; it parses the application's output and at this time the latest published package doesn't seem to correctly handle anything newer.

I stumbled upon Hoshinova recently, I think it can do what you're seeking for. I don't know if it's in community applications but since there's a docker a simple docker compose or an install in a VM should work easily

ytarchive is a command-line tool that can monitor a YouTube channel and get the entirety of a stream even if the download starts late. (yt-dlp also supports this with --live-from-start, but it's currently experimental.)

i use ytarchive, it's very reliable.

I use https://github.com/Kethsar/ytarchive for youtube livestream recordings, I find it more reliable than yt-dlp for this use case.

Is there a way I can record Twitch streams from the start even the stream has been running for hours? Something similar to this: https://github.com/Kethsar/ytarchive but for Twitch?

check out https://github.com/Kethsar/ytarchive

these issues made me switch to a different tool, ytarchive. i've never had an issue with it.

these days i use ytarchive instead for this purpose.

ytarchive is better, easier to work with.