Twitch Clips URL not embedding the video player on Discord correctly

[ThatSameer]

Description

Up until earlier this year, when twitch clip links were sent on Discord, every link had the video player embedded to play within Discord itself.

However, earlier this year, I began noticing most twitch clip links now do not embed the video player within Discord. Instead, it now takes you to the external (twitch) webpage to view it.

On rare occasions, the twitch clip link will embed the video within Discord. I can't find any reproducable pattern to make it work. It just sometimes work, sometimes doesn't but more often it doesn't. The same clip link can also sometimes produce the embed video player and most times not.

Checking the Discord embed debugger for the links, it gives the warning "Unable to extract video: Internal error". On the rare occasion where it does work, there is no warning.

Steps to Reproduce

Any Twitch clip link can be used to reproduce the issue. Here are a few random example links for testing:

• https://clips.twitch.tv/LaconicChillyOkapiHeyGuys-k0cUv6XTjI5jm2Ch
• https://clips.twitch.tv/YummySmokyAlmondPhilosoraptor-sA8bmVOxriGisD30
• https://clips.twitch.tv/FlaccidPrettiestSnoodKappa-hABXTo34kpPD2fXA

Paste any of the above links into a Discord text channel and send. They should embed the video player within Discord.

Discord Embed Debugger:

• https://discord.com/developers/embeds?url=https%253A%252F%252Fclips.twitch.tv%252FLaconicChillyOkapiHeyGuys-k0cUv6XTjI5jm2Ch

Expected Behavior

In the Discord text channel, the link should embed with the video player to be able to play the video within Discord

Current Behavior

More than 50% of the time, the video player does not get embedded and only shows as link

Screenshots/Videos

Working example (rare occurrence):

Discord text channel

Discord Embed Debugger

{
  "embeds": [
    {
      "type": "video",
      "url": "https://clips.twitch.tv/EncouragingBoringTeaPJSugar-S5daNdF5uTK1QDzK",
      "title": "ohbunnies - nickyem",
      "description": "Watch ohbunnies's clip titled \"nickyem\"",
      "provider": {
        "name": "Twitch"
      },
      "thumbnail": {
        "url": "https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/twitch-clips-thumbnails-prod/EncouragingBoringTeaPJSugar-S5daNdF5uTK1QDzK/1e3fe380-ab11-40e7-87f6-dd24bebc84e1/preview.jpg",
        "proxy_url": "https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/Ci9fKVX5qwXuid5NzVtmr1OZlypxnJ5xA_78pdqNPaA/https/static-cdn.jtvnw.net/twitch-clips-thumbnails-prod/EncouragingBoringTeaPJSugar-S5daNdF5uTK1QDzK/1e3fe380-ab11-40e7-87f6-dd24bebc84e1/preview.jpg",
        "width": 1664,
        "height": 936,
        "placeholder": "8wcOBIBoh3eQeHhReIKVggBcCQ==",
        "placeholder_version": 1
      },
      "video": {
        "url": "https://clips.twitch.tv/embed?clip=EncouragingBoringTeaPJSugar-S5daNdF5uTK1QDzK&parent=meta.tag",
        "width": 620,
        "height": 378
      }
    }
  ]
}

Broken example:

Discord text channel

Discord Embed Debugger

{
  "embeds": [
    {
      "type": "link",
      "url": "https://clips.twitch.tv/LaconicChillyOkapiHeyGuys-k0cUv6XTjI5jm2Ch",
      "title": "Emiru - Jason Emiru cosplay?!?",
      "description": "Watch Emiru's clip titled \"Jason Emiru cosplay?!?\"",
      "provider": {
        "name": "Twitch"
      },
      "thumbnail": {
        "url": "https://clips-media-assets2.twitch.tv/xDrgxJNHFL-l04yOY5tgoQ/AT-cm%7CxDrgxJNHFL-l04yOY5tgoQ-social-preview.jpg",
        "proxy_url": "https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/JSy6-B7Ew-1npvG7QzTxvnah317dqBurRW8PxK69x30/https/clips-media-assets2.twitch.tv/xDrgxJNHFL-l04yOY5tgoQ/AT-cm%257CxDrgxJNHFL-l04yOY5tgoQ-social-preview.jpg",
        "width": 1920,
        "height": 1080,
        "placeholder": "2QcGBIKDu2qfdndzd1W+b/FrRQ==",
        "placeholder_version": 1
      }
    }
  ]
}

Client and System Information

Currently on: stable 337154 (65fd300) Host 0.0.322 arm64 Build Override: N/A macOS 14 (23.3.0)

However, same issue no matter what device I send the Twitch clip links on.

[jkcailteux]

Have a fix