Twitch chat with irssi - June 2021

irssi twitch.txt

Tested working 20 Jun 2021, irssi version 1.2.3

This is a TLDR version of https://blog.crunchprank.net/connecting-to-twitch-chat-via-irssi/

Get your OAuth token (password) here: https://twitchapps.com/tmi/

# Network setup:

/network add -nick YOUR_TWITCH_USERNAME twitch
/server add -auto -ssl -network Twitch irc.chat.twitch.tv 6697 YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN
# auto-set capabilities, /commands is useful /membership is basic, /tags is interesting
/network add -autosendcmd "/quote CAP REQ :twitch.tv/commands" twitch
/save

# Manually connect (or just restart irssi):

/connect twitch

# Automatically join channels:

/channel add -auto #channel twitch
/save

# Manually join channel:

/join #channel