ttchat

Connect to a Twitch channel's chat from your terminal

Installing

Download release

See https://github.com/modprog/ttchat/releases.

With Go

go get github.com/modprog/ttchat

Clone and build

git clone https://github.com/modprog/ttchat.git

make build

You should see the binary at ./bin/ttchat.

Configuration and Setup

A configuration file at $HOME/.ttchat/config.yaml containing some account information is required for authentication.

clientID: "your_twitch_client_id"
username: "your_twitch_login_username"
redirectPort: "9999"

clientID is your Client ID listed on your application on https://dev.twitch.tv/console.

username is your username for logging in.

redirectPort is the port that ttchat will use to spin up a temporary, localhost server used in the authentication process. If redirectPort is empty, port 9999 is used.

Your Twitch application's list of OAuth Redirect URLs must have a match for the URL of ttchat. If this was your configuration:

clientID: "123"
username: "foo"
redirectPort: "8080"

ttchat would listen on http://localhost:8080 for Twitch's authentication result. So, your Twitch application must have http://localhost:8080 for a redirect URL.

Running

See ttchat -h for options and arguments

ttchat --channel ludwig

Obtaining an access token requires you to login via your default browswer. To provide your own token, use the --token flag. See https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/authentication/getting-tokens-oauth for more details on obtaining your own access token.

ttchat -c ludwing --token $ACCESS_TOKEN