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ChatIS v3 (the long awaited sequel) [WIP]
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Support for Powerups #26

Open shuffgy opened 5 months ago

shuffgy commented 5 months ago

Twitch now has "Powerups". These are special messages you can use with bits. There are new events for it also.

Link to blogpost

Would be awesome to somehow support these (bigger emote, blinky message) or at least show the messages.

IS2511 commented 2 days ago

The power-up "messages" are actually EventSub API events, which ChatIS doesn't support at all because it's a totally different system from the Twitch chat itself. I'm not even sure it's possible to publicly subscribe to the needed events (like channel.chat.message), most require perms that are only available to authenticated apps and users. Requiring streamers to log-in in their OBS is a bad idea. Offloading the auth to my server and proxying the events is an even worse idea. The optimal approach would probably be to have a Twitch login on my website and give out chat URLs with a personal API token. Kinda unsafe, but probably the best UX I can offer, similar to what existing overlay platforms are doing.

TLDR: A pain in the ass to implement, huge UX changes required, probably a v3 endeavor.