Twitch Chat Alerts

A very simple application to get notified of basic Twitch chat events.

Features

• Monitor multiple Twitch chats at the same time
• Read chat messages from any number of channels
• Receive notifications on:
  • somebody hosting a channel
  • somebody cheering on a channel
  • somebody (re)subscribing to a channel
  • somebody joining or leaving a channel
• Single channel mode for only montioring one channel with cleaner output

Config

Just add a config.json file in the root directory and set the following settings:

• channels - Join your own stream chat by prefixing your all lowercase Twitch username with a '#'. eg. #sedlak4777. You can join other channels too
• flags - Flags for configuring different kind of behaviour
  • showChatMessages - Output chat messages
  • showSelf - Also show your own actions (chat messages, join, leave, etc.)
  • showHost - Display a message if somebody started hosting a channel
  • showCheer - Display a message if somebody cheered on a channel
  • showTimestamp - Add a timestamp at every action
  • includeCheerMessage - Also output the included cheer message
  • showSubscription - Display a message if somebody subscribed to a channel
  • includeSubscriptionMessage - Also output the included subscription message
  • showResubscription - Display a message if somebody resubscribed to a channel
  • includeResubscriptionMessage - Also output the included resubscription message
  • showJoin - Display a message if somebody joins a channel (has a 30-60 seconds delay because of Twitch API limitations)
  • showPart - Display a message if somebody parts (leaves) from a channel (has a 30-60 seconds delay because of Twitch API limitations)
  • clearConsole - Also clear the console if the Twitch chat got cleared. (only in single channel mode)
  • debug - Enable additional debug log
  • singleChannelMode - Only join one channel and don't output channel name on actions
• timestampFormat - Format of the timestamp. For more details check out node-datetime

Template

{
    "channels": [
        "#YOUR_USERNAME"
    ],
    "flags": {
        "showChatMessages": true,
        "showSelf": true,
        "showHost": true,
        "showCheer": true,
        "includeCheerMessage": true,
        "showSubscription": true,
        "includeSubscriptionMessage": true,
        "showResubscription": true,
        "includeResubscriptionMessage": true,
        "showJoin": true,
        "showPart": true,
        "clearConsole": false,
        "debug": false,
        "singleChannelMode": true
    }
}

To disable colors pass --no-color as a command line argument.

License

MIT