Live Stream Question

This project is a Java application that fetch YouTube live and Twitch chat comments to display some in your live stream.

Features

• Display chat comments
• Pin a comment as a question
• Promote a question to the live
• Demote the live question
• Unpin a question

Usage

The moderation team can select questions from chat and promote them to live stream:

In the same time, the overlay will update to display the promoted question:

Running the application in dev mode

You can run your application in dev mode that enables live coding using:

./mvnw quarkus:dev

Packaging and running the application

The application can be packaged using ./mvnw package. It produces the youtube-live-question-1.0.0-runner.jar file in the /target directory. Be aware that it’s not an über-jar as the dependencies are copied into the target/lib directory.

The application is now runnable using java -jar target/youtube-live-question-1.0.0-runner.jar.

Setting Up Twitch

Getting Credentials

To get the chat comments, this application needs to be registered as a Twitch application from the Twitch developers site to a get client id and a client secret.

It also needs an access token (without specific permission other than the default public access) to read the user details (display name and profile picture URL). Access token can be generated from Twitch Token Generator (use custom scope token and remove all scopes).

Configuring Application

The Twitch configuration can be applied using the following environment variables:

TWITCH_CHAT_ENABLED=true
TWITCH_CHANNEL=<<channel_name>>
TWITCH_CLIENT_ID=<<client_id>>
TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET=<<client_secret>>
TWITCH_ACCESS_TOKEN=<<access_token>>