# Find your best moments with Highlights

Let Highlights look through your past streams for the moments worth sharing, watch them, make Twitch clips of the best ones and optionally clip automatically after every broadcast.

Updated 9 October 2026

## What Highlights does

After a stream ends, the best moments are hard to find again: you were busy playing. **Highlights** looks through your saved broadcast for you. It listens for the places where something happened, such as laughter, a shout or chat suddenly going wild, writes down what was said and what chat did, and rates each moment from **Quiet** up to **Standout**. The best ones appear on your **Highlights** page, ready to watch, clip or dismiss.

Nothing is posted for you unless you choose it. A Twitch clip is made only when you press **Make Twitch clip**, or when you turn on the automatic flow in [step 4](https://bloopbot.com/docs/highlights#auto). Highlights stores no audio or video: [What is kept](https://bloopbot.com/docs/highlights#kept) lists exactly what it holds on to.

## Before you start

- Highlights is an **add-on**, not part of a plan, and it may not be switched on for your channel yet. Without it, the **Highlights** page shows _Highlights is an add-on. Ask us to switch it on for your channel._ with a **Contact us** button. Once it is on, everything below works on any plan.
- It reads your **past broadcasts as Twitch saved them**. Check that your Twitch channel keeps past broadcasts (in Twitch’s own stream settings); a stream Twitch did not save cannot be looked through. Broadcasts longer than 8 hours are skipped.
- English works best.
- To make Twitch clips you also need to give clip-making permission once, as described in [step 3](https://bloopbot.com/docs/highlights#clip). Looking for moments does not need it.

## 1. Switch it on

1. Open **Highlights** in the dashboard’s **Run** menu.
2. Turn on the **Highlights** switch at the top right of the page.

Highlights starts with your **last three saved broadcasts**, so the page fills up straight away. A message under the page header says _Highlights is on. Looking through your last 3 streams now._ After that, each new broadcast is looked through about ten minutes after it ends, and its moments are ready, usually, within the hour.

Each broadcast has its own card with its title, date and a status:

| Status | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| Waiting its turn | The broadcast is in line to be looked through. |
| Finding moments | It is being looked through now. Moments appear on the card as they are found; the page checks again by itself every so often. |
| Ready | Every moment has been found and rated. |
| A sentence about the recording | Twitch’s recording was not available, would not be read, or was longer than 8 hours. |
| _Something went wrong on our side. It will not be retried._ | Something failed on Bloopbot’s side while the broadcast was being looked through. It is not tried again. |
| Stopped when you turned Highlights off | You switched Highlights off while the broadcast was still being looked through. |

The switch is yours to flip at any time. Turning Highlights off stops broadcasts that were still being looked through, and keeps the moments found so far.

## 2. Read a moment

Each broadcast card lists up to twelve moments, in the order Highlights ranked them.

![The Highlights page. The newest broadcast, Chapter 7 in one sitting, is still finding moments and lists three: Strong, Decent and one still saying Rating…. Below it a finished broadcast lists a Standout moment already marked Clipped and a Strong one. Each moment shows its time, what was said, a few chat lines and the Watch on Twitch, Make Twitch clip and Dismiss buttons.](https://bloopbot.com/docs/screenshots/highlights-page.jpg)

_The Highlights page: the newest broadcast still finding moments, one of them still showing Rating…, and an older broadcast with a Standout moment already clipped._

A moment shows:

- **The time**, as hours, minutes and seconds into the broadcast.
- **The rating**: **Quiet**, **Small**, **Decent**, **Strong** or **Standout**. It reads **Rating…** while a moment is still being rated, and **Not rated** if it could not be.
- **What was said**, a short excerpt, and up to three lines of chat from the same moment.

A broadcast with no moments says so: _Nothing stood out in this stream._ That is a normal result for a quiet stream, not a fault.

## 3. Watch it, clip it or dismiss it

Each moment has three buttons on the right; hover one to see its name.

- **Watch on Twitch** (the arrow out of a box) opens your broadcast on Twitch about five seconds before the moment, so you see it come in.
- **Make Twitch clip** (the film) asks Twitch for a clip of that moment, between 5 and 60 seconds long. A moment that has been clipped shows **Clipped** instead, which opens the clip on Twitch. A moment is clipped at most once. **Make Twitch clip** is unavailable while the moment still shows **Rating…**.
- **Dismiss** (the cross) hides the moment and deletes the words and chat kept for it.

A clip made this way is a normal Twitch clip on your channel. It is **public**, so anyone can watch it and see its title, which is your stream’s title followed by _highlight_. Delete a clip you do not want from Twitch’s own clip list.

Editors can switch Highlights on and off, clip and dismiss. A moderator can open the page and read it, nothing more.

## Allow clip making

Highlights finds moments without any extra permission, but a clip is made as you, on your Twitch account. The first time, a bar called **Allow clip making** sits under the page title. The channel’s owner presses **Allow clip making**, approves the permission on Twitch and comes back to the page. It only needs doing once. Editors and moderators see the bar but cannot give the permission, so ask the owner to open the page.

## If Twitch refuses a clip

Twitch sometimes refuses a clip, for example when clips are turned off for your channel or for a broadcast Twitch will not clip. The moment then shows Twitch’s reason in its own words, next to **Watch on Twitch at this moment**, so you can still go and see it. Nothing is changed by a refusal; press **Make Twitch clip** again once the cause is fixed.

## 4. Clip the best moments automatically

If you would rather have clips waiting after every stream, use the ready-made flow.

1. Open **Flows**, press **Marketplace** and open the **AI helpers** pack.
2. Add **Auto-clip the top 3 highlights** on its own (it is in the **AI helpers** pack). It is paused when you add it.
3. Open the flow and check the **Clip the top highlights** step. **How many** is 3 by default and can be 1 to 5. Under **More options**, **Clip title** replaces the default title; leave it empty to keep it.
4. Turn the flow on.

![A Highlights are ready trigger connected to a Clip the top highlights step on the flow canvas. The step is selected, and its settings panel shows How many set to 3.](https://bloopbot.com/docs/screenshots/highlights-auto-clip-flow.jpg)

_The Auto-clip the top 3 highlights flow: Highlights are ready, followed by Clip the top highlights with How many set to 3._

The flow starts with the **Highlights are ready** trigger, which runs once for each broadcast after all its moments are rated. It then runs **Clip the top highlights**, which clips the best moments of that broadcast, best first. A moment Twitch refuses does not stop the others. The step fails only when no clip at all could be made, for example before you have pressed **Allow clip making**, and the run log says why.

> **Automatic clips are public**
>
> Once this flow is on, up to the number of clips set in **How many** (3 to start, up to 5) are posted to your Twitch channel after every broadcast without asking. Leave the flow off if you would rather choose clips yourself on the Highlights page.

You can also build your own flow from **Highlights are ready**. Its **Moments** value says how many moments were found, and **Broadcast link** is the broadcast on Twitch, for example to post it in your Discord. The **Clip the top highlights** step only works right after this trigger. See [Create a clip with your own title](https://bloopbot.com/docs/clips) for live clips made while you stream.

## What is kept

- **The words and chat for each moment**: a short excerpt of what was said and a few chat lines. They are kept for **90 days**, deleted when you dismiss the moment, and deleted with your channel.
- **Ratings and times** of the moments belong to the same records and go with them.
- **No audio and no video are stored.** The broadcast’s sound is processed while a stream is looked through and then discarded. The broadcast itself stays with Twitch.

Each moment’s words and chat lines are sent to an AI model to be rated, and are not used to write anything.

Turning Highlights off stops new work and keeps the moments you already have. [AI features and what’s included](https://bloopbot.com/docs/ai-features) explains how Bloopbot’s AI steps are used and what they never do.

## Troubleshooting

- **The page says Highlights is an add-on.** Your channel does not have it yet. Use **Contact us** on the page.
- **No broadcasts appear after switching on.** Highlights only looks at broadcasts Twitch has saved. Check your Twitch stream settings keep past broadcasts, then switch Highlights off and on again. A new broadcast is picked up about ten minutes after it ends.
- **A broadcast says Twitch’s recording wasn’t available.** Twitch had not listed, or had already removed, the recording. Check that your channel keeps past broadcasts.
- **A broadcast says it is too long.** Broadcasts over 8 hours are skipped.
- **Make Twitch clip says to press Allow clip making.** The channel’s owner has not given the permission yet; see [Allow clip making](https://bloopbot.com/docs/highlights#allow).
- **The automatic flow ran but made no clips.** Open the flow’s run log. It names the reason, such as clip making not allowed or Twitch refusing every moment.