TWITCH CHAT IN THE TERMINAL

Use this program to get the chat messages of your twitch chat directly to your terminal. Easy to setup and use. Provides some basic configurations like displaying with timestamps and colors.

Features

Display messages with color (or not, you can choose)
Show timestamp of the message (in UTC only right now)
The messages will be underlined if it contains a mention of the channel name

Note

More features coming soon. Let me know in the issues what features you prefer to see.

Installation and Usage

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/vyshnav-vinod/console-twitch-chat.git

Navigate to the directory
Rename .env_example into .env
To get your access token
- Go to twitchtokengenerator or any similar sites
- Click on Bot Chat Token
- And copy the Access Token
- Paste it into the ACCESS_TOKEN field inside the newly made .env

Note

You can use your own account or a newly made account

Open cfg.json and add your channel name or the channel whose chat you want in your terminal to the CHANNELS value. Also configure the other options
Create a virtual environment (Recommended) and activate it python3 -m venv .venv
Install required packages pip install -r requirements.txt
Run main.py

python main.py

Thats it, you should get your messages in the terminal.

Issues

If you run into any issues, feel free to raise a issue in our issues page.