Plugin ideas

[pajlada]

Got an idea for a plugin that you feel like would be useful in Chatterino, but might not make sense in Chatterino itself?
Post it here - we're looking to see how the API should be designed, so getting some ideas as to what you'd like to be able to do with plugins is useful.

[pajlada]

A plugin that allows for dynamic filtering & highlighting of messages.

This can be more extensible than we currently allow in Chatterino, applying your own logic and storing previous messages from the specific user etc

[Mm2PL]

Things needed for this:

• plugins need to be somehow notified of incoming messages to highlight
• they need to be able to see message contents (possibly even edit them for custom ignores?)

[iProdigy]

summarizing some of the previous ideas:

#4885 - add buttons to profile card that can open web links

#4449 - read message (tags) and play sound

#2091 - replace message content (or add message)

#4931 - open a websocket & populate some custom split with system messages

[Mm2PL]

I believe #4449 is essentially just requesting a highlight.

[MrPandir]

Many of my ideas are related to what I'm missing in Chatterino, because it doesn't use GraphQL. But I think this can be implemented using plugins.

Here is my list of ideas:

• Display of raid start / hype train / voting / predictions / paid message / pinned message at the top of the chat as it is done on Twitch
• Access to the list of viewers even if you are not a moderator
• Adding 7TV / BetterTTV emotes using the context menu on links
• More advanced control over badges in the settings. To be able to remove a specific badge from all users or from a selected user
• Output the current bitrate in the chat title

From the Chatterino API, the following would be required for this:

• Obtaining the authorization token for the given user
• Customizable notification at the top of the chat
• Modification of the logic function to retrieve the list of viewers
• Modification of the context menu
• Addition of new settings parameters
• Modification of the function to display the chat title

This is just what recently came to my mind. 🫠

[Mm2PL]

When it comes to the list of moderators thing, you could make a website that republishes the list of moderators of willing broadcasters and then use that for /mods potentially with other public data. This is completely out of scope of our project. Exactly the area where plugins should be used.

• Adding 7TV / BetterTTV emotes using the context menu on links
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• Modification of the context menu

This would be nice. Honestly I wouldn't be opposed to making this a Chatterino function instead of a plugin. Modifying message context menus with the ability to tell what element was clicked is would also be nice.

• More advanced control over badges in the settings. To be able to remove a specific badge from all users or from a selected user

I would like to be able for plugins to be able to generally modify and build messages on the level similar to our internal message elements, maybe even exposing an API for some of them.

• Addition of new settings parameters
  As for settings there is no GUI but you can just take a free (whatever-format-you-desire) library and make settings for your plugin. Just use commands for an interface, it's not ideal but it works. I might create a settings library for plugins that handles tab completion and stuff like that.

• Obtaining the authorization token for the given user

I would actually prefer for the plugins to never be able to see the token but instead be able to perform authenticated requests on behalf of the user. This ensures that they won't just take it and send it off to wherever the author pleases.

• Modification of the logic function to retrieve the list of viewers

I would actually prefer that plugins won't be able to modify our existing viewer list but would instead make their own via some kind of GUI API, maybe even using the same class but our implementation probably shouldn't need to worry about choosing a source of the viewer list.
It would be simpler to implement something to just redirect the chatter list request to a plugin but it only gives us the ability to make a chatter list in plugins. IMO the more specific and niche an API is, the harder we have to think if we should use our limited resources to make it.

• Modification of the function to display the chat title

This is probably too niche unless we decide that pseudo-guis with custom messages and abusing splits is the way we want plugins to do GUI (tbh it is quite tempting).

Customizable notification at the top of the chat

I'm not sure what use cases there are for this apart from getting data you sadly can't get with third-party-accessible APIs. If there are none, this might not get implemented.

[MrPandir]

I converted this into an idea Adding 7TV / BetterTTV emotes using the context menu on links #5328 and also duplicated the discussion of this topic so that the discussion about the possibility of implementing this as a built-in feature in Chatterino could be continued.