tinytwitch is a twitch chat viewer with not many features (no emotes, you can only view chat, etc) but a very small footprint (under 2mb ram and around 0.02 average cpu usage when connected to the current top 10 streamer's chats)
This makes it much more lightweight than using a browser and much more simple than using a full IRC client just for twitch
If you're just looking for the downloads, click here
The current supported features are:
- Allows joining multiple channels (can look messy)
- Optional "highlights" (as you don't login it might be worth highlighting your username)
- Optional logging to file in same directory
- Settings file to set up default settings as well as colors
- Shows users joining and leaving a chat
- Shows mod gain and loss messages (mostly when mods join)
- [S]ubscriber and [M]oderator badges
- New subs and resubs notifications with number of months, both with their message
Simply run the program and it will prompt you to enter a space seperated list of channels:
$ tinytwitch.exe
Type the usernames of the channels to join, seperated by a space:
bobross summit1g lirik
You can of course just enter a single channel. There is also the included configuration file (settings.toml) that allows you to set up some defaults.
This was mostly made for fun and to test the awesome language it's made in, Nim. You'll probably immediately know if you have use for this or not, if you don't feel like leaving a resource hog browser running but still want your chat up, or maybe you want to leave a friend's/streamer you moderate's chat up while playing a game and lanuch a browser when you need to step in and moderate
You'll need Nim to build the program your self, simply running
$ nimble install
should install the program, or it can be built simply with
$ nim c -d:release tinytwitch.nim
though you will need to install the irc module if you don't use nimble to automatically get the dependency