Fetch the chatlog to a Twitch VOD from your command line with twitch-chatlog.
This little command can download the whole chat log to a twitch VOD. It takes the ID of the VOD (v1111111 or similar) as only argument. To learn about the usage of the command, use twitch-chatlog -h.
The output can optionally be colored with -c or --color or by setting an environment variable TWITCH_CHATLOG_COLOR. To disable the loading progress bar, set --no-progress or TWITCH_CHATLOG_PROGRESS to false.
To make use of your own Twitch application client ID, you may provide it as a command line option -C or --client-id or set an environment variable TWITCH_CHATLOG_CLIENT_ID. The default value for client ID is not guaranteed to work past 08 Aug 2016, in which case you will have to supply your own.
To control the part of the chat log to fetch, --start, --length and --end can be used. See the usage section below. By default the command will only fetch the first ten minutes of chat log to minimize the amount of requests.
npm install -g twitch-chatlog
Fetch the chat log to a Twitch VOD.
Usage: twitch-chatlog <vod_id>
vod_id is the ID from the VOD URL, prefixed with v.
Options:
-c, --color Colorize output [boolean] [default: false]
-C, --client-id Twitch application client ID [string] [default: (Client-ID)]
-p, --progress Show a progress bar while loading the log
[boolean] [default: true]
-l, --length Amount of time from the log to fetch in seconds. Gets
shortened to the VOD length if bigger. 0 loads everything but
is not recommended. The output will run until the next end of
a log fragment. [number] [default: (10 min)]
-s, --start Start time. Can either be a time relative to the VOD start or
actual time. [string] [default: "00:00:00"]
-e, --end End time. Alternative to specifying a length. A time like for
start. [string]
-h, --help Show help [boolean]
--version Show version number [boolean]
Examples:
twitch-chatlog v79240813 Load the first ten minutes of chat
for the VOD
https://twitch.tv/ec0ke/v/79040813
twitch-chatlog -c --end 00:15:00 Load the first 15 minutes of chat
v79240813 for the VOD and colorize the output.
twitch-chatlog v79240813 --no-progress Load the chat log until the given
--end=2016-07-20T20:37:44+0000 date and don't show a progress bar.