ChatRD is a chat overlay widget for OBS that unifies messages and events from Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Kick, Streamlabs, StreamElements, Patreon, TipeeeStream, Ko-Fi, Fourthwall (and more to come).
- 💬 Multi-platform chat
- 💬 Multi-language events
- 📊 Events and Live stats
- 🎨 Customizable
- 💾 Saves your settings using localStorage and Streamer.Bot's Global Varaibles
Make sure your Twitch and YouTube accounts are connected on Streamer.Bot and you have TikFinity Desktop App installed and set up to your account on TikTok. BOTH APPS NEED TO RUN ON THE SAME PC.
- On Streamer.Bot, go to Server/Clients → WebSocket Server and make sure it is running
- Import the string inside the file streamerbot-import.vortisrd to your Streamer.Bot using the Import button at the top.
- Go to Server/Clients → WebSocket Client and make sure the TikFinity WebSocket is connected. If not, right-click on it and check Auto-Connect and Reconnect before clicking on Connect.
- Download TikFinity Desktop App and make sure it's is opened and connected to your TikTok Account.
- Open the Settings Page in your browser.
- Choose your desired options.
- Click "Copy URL".
- Add the copied URL as a Browser Source in OBS. Or use it in your browser to read chat. 😊
- For Streamlabs, StreamElements, Patreon, TipeeeStream, Ko-Fi and Fourthwall, you need to connect them to your Streamer.Bot account to their website. Follow the tutorial links in each section presented in the Settings Page.
- First, download Kick.Bot from Sehelitar's repo.
- Unzip and copy the DLLs from Kick.Bot to the dlls folder inside Streamer.Bot. If it's not there, create one (name it "dlls", lowercase).
- Import the action from action.txt file (inside the ZIP folder you just unzipped) to Streamer.Bot.
- Close Streamer.Bot and open it again. After a few seconds, a window will appear asking you to login on Kick.
- Done! 😊
If Kick.Bot stops sending events to ChatRD, delete it's dlls in the dlls folder, delete the imported Kick.Bot action and delete the Streamer.bot.exe.WebView2 folder. After that, reinstall Kick.Bot using the above instructions.
Kick doesn't offer an API like Twitch does. It's not feasible for Streamer.Bot do it in an easy manner like Twitch, YouTube, Trovo, etc.
Kick.Bot does an excelent job but there is some information missing on the payload from Kick, like avatars, badges (gift sub, community, etc), viewership, etc. And there will be some errors or some misinformation being shown. I tried my best to emulate these.
I couldn't test every single outcome because it's not possible to simulate the events besides Chat. I followed Kick.Bot's documentation and hoped for the best. 🙏
Also, at any point either Kick or Kick.Bot might change their stuff, so please, be patient! 😊
- Go to Settings → WebSocket Server, click on Start Server. Make sure to also tick the Auto-Start checkbox.
- Go to Settings → Speech Engine and add the TTS Service of your preference. (Sapi5 is the Windows default).
- Go to Settings → Voice Aliases, name the voice SpeakerBot and click Add right next to it.
- In the Left Column, click on the SpeakerBot you just added and on the Speak! section, select the voice you want to use and click Add. (If you're using Sapi5, I recommend using Microsoft Zira Desktop as a voice).
- Import the streamerbot-import.vortisrd file to your Streamer.Bot. There's a new action that will handle the Speaker.Bot integration.
- Go to Integrations → Speaker.Bot, click on Connect. Make sure to also tick the Auto-Start and Auto-Connect checkboxes.
- Trovo
- LivePix
- Tipa.Ai
- Can I use it to read my chat? R: Yes you can. You can open it on your browser, use it as a chat overlay and use it as a dock in OBS.
- What about YouTube Members Emotes? R: YouTube doesn't expose their Partner Emojis to Streamer.Bot. All you can do is add the emojis manually in ChatRD. Please read this.
- Can I set TTS to read only the events I want to read? R: ChatRD only reads either chats, events or both. If you want to filter the events, I suggest you setup Speaker.Bot separately.
- TikTok events are not working anymore, what should I do? R: Make sure your TikFinity is connected to your account and you are live. Also go to Server/Clients → WebSocket Client and make sure the TikFinity WebSocket is connected. Instructions here.
- Kick events are not working anymore, what should I do? R: Try reinstalling Kick.Bot using the following methods.
- Where are my Kick sub badges? And the X or Y badges? R: At the moment of this post, the WebSocket I connect to show Kick's chat doesn't expose the Badges like Twitch does. Twitch mentions the badges and sends the URL, showing it like this. Kick doesn't, showing on code like this. You can see the person is subscribed and it's a sub gifter, but it doesn't show the specified badges. I did the best I could with the other badges. When Kick improves their API, I will revisit this later.
- Can you add other streaming/payment platforms? R: ChatRD uses Streamer.Bot to 95% of all platform iterations. TikFinity is perfectly integrated via WebSockets and Kick.Bot adds a decent integration. So if the platform has a decent WebSocket API (not WebHooks, those need a server to be usable) and/or has any integration with Streamer.Bot, please feel free to suggest it. Other than that, there are no plans to add more platforms.
- Can I customize it? R: If you mean visual styles, yes. Read here.
I tried to add member emotes but that is currently impossible due to YouTube's API not exposing Members Emotes and with that, Streamer.Bot won't be able to show them.. So I've added a way for the users to add them manually at the overlay, with the data saved as a Streamer.Bot Global Variable.
What Casterlabs Caffeinated, Social Stream Ninja and Onecomme do to scrape the emotes won't work with the current way Streamer.Bot and my code works, so I had to choose between making the user add them manually or build a server-sided executable (using NodeJS, Python or whatever) to read the chat as it's going or scrape the HTML code. I don't want to add another executable on top of the user's flow, so it would be easier to use what it's currently available. And no, I won't do any research based on what other tools do. Tried to do that and wasted 1 week of my life doing it.
When YouTube decide to expose their Partner Emotes on their API, I'll come back to this.
If you want to customize what events the TTS reads, like "I want it to read sub notifications but I don't want it to read bits", it's possible. But doing that means adding an extra TTS switch for every single event for all platforms, making the setup page almost triplicate in size and bloat the code. I won't do that. I want to keep it simple and contained.
If you want to have TTS for events separately, I suggest you Disable TTS Events on ChatRD and setup Speaker.Bot with the things you want. 😊
The safest way to customize ChatRD is open either the Chat or the Config in your browser and use it's Dev Tools to look for the tags, their classes, identifiers and then style in the way you want. You need basic CSS knowledge for that.
After you finish it, paste the CSS inside the Custom CSS field within Browser Source Property Window.
If you break it, you fix it. 😊
Made with ❤️ by VortisRD
🔗 GitHub • Twitch • YouTube • TikTok • Kick • Twitter / X
Heavily inspired by Nutty
🔗 GitHub • Twitch • YouTube • TikTok • Twitter / X