Twitch Chat Downloader

Neat python script to download chat messages from past broadcasts

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• pip
• Requests library installation guide

Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python app.py 80123392

Now, just replace the number with any video id, found in the url of the vod.

Settings

When running the program for the first time, example.settings.json will be copied to settings.json. The command below sets video and client ID, however, they are both optional parameters when running the script.

python app.py <video_id> <client_id>

Notes

• A client ID is currently not required by Twitch. If they ever decide to require a client ID, require_client_id in settings.json should be set to true, so that a client ID is required when running the script.
• Empty messages means the user was timed out or banned. There's no known way to get these messages.
• This script is using Twitch's undocumented ReChat API. The script may break at any time.
• The longer VOD, the more API calls are made to Twitch (possibly thousands). Use with care and stay up to date on any rate limits.