GET /chat/:channel
curl -i https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/chat/kraken_test_user
{
"_links": {
"self": "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/chat/kraken_test_user",
"emoticons":"https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/chat/kraken_test_user/emoticons",
"badges": "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/chat/kraken_test_user/badges"
}
}
GET /chat/emoticons
Returns an array of all emoticon objects for Twitch.
curl -i https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/chat/emoticons
{
"_links": {
"self": "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/chat/emoticons"
}
"emoticons": [
{
"regex": "\:-?\(",
"images": [
{
"emoticon_set": null,
"height": 18,
"width": 24,
"url": "http://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/chansub-global-emoticon-d570c4b3b8d8fc4d-24x18.png"
},
{
"emoticon_set": 33,
"height": 18,
"width": 21,
"url": "http://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/chansub-global-emoticon-c41c5c6c88f481cd-21x18.png"
}
]
},
...
]
}
GET /chat/:channel/emoticons
** DEPRECATED **
Returns an array of emoticon objects that can be used in the specified channel's chat.
{
"emoticons": [
{
"regex": "MeoW",
"url": "http://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/chansub-crs_crumbzz-emoticon-30bc1522fa392415-28x32.png",
"height": 32,
"width": 28,
"subscriber_only": true
},
{
"regex": "\\<\\;3",
"url": "http://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/chansub-global-emoticon-67cde8d0b7916e57-24x18.png",
"height":18,
"width":24,
"subscriber_only": false
}
...
],
"_links": {
"self": "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/chat/kraken_test_user/emoticons"
}
}
Twitch offers an IRC interface to its chat. This allows for people to do things like develop bots for their channel, or to connect to a channel's chat with an IRC client instead of using the web interface. While our IRC server is built to follow RFC1459, it is important to note that there are some cases where it will behave slightly differently than another IRC server would. These cases are noted when necessary in the following document.
Lines prefixed with < are sent from client to server, and lines prefixed with > are sent from the server to the connecting client.
In order to connect to Twitch IRC, you must have two pieces of information:
- The name of channel that you want to join.
- A Twitch account.
Once you have that information, you can then take it to connect to Twitch IRC with the following bits of information:
- The server name to connect to is: channellname.jtvirc.com.
- The port to connect to is 6667.
- SSL is not supported for Twitch IRC.
- Your nickname must be your Twitch nickname
- Your password should be your Twitch password.
- An OAuth token for the user, with the
chat_login
scope. The token must have the prefix ofoauth:
. For example, if you have the tokenabcd
, you sendoauth:abcd
.
A successful connection session will look something like this:
< PASS oauth:twitch_oauth_token
< NICK twitch_username
> :tmi.twitch.tv 001 twitch_username :connected to TMI
> :tmi.twitch.tv 002 twitch_username :your host is TMI
> :tmi.twitch.tv 003 twitch_username :this server is pretty new
> :tmi.twitch.tv 004 twitch_username tmi.twitch.tv 0.0.1 w n
> :tmi.twitch.tv 375 twitch_username :- tmi.twitch.tv Message of the day -
> :tmi.twitch.tv 372 twitch_username :- not much to say here
> :tmi.twitch.tv 376 twitch_username :End of /MOTD command
About once every five minutes, you will receive a PONG channelname.jtvirc.com
from the server, in order to ensure that your connection to the server is not prematurely terminated, you should reply with PING channelname.jtvirc.com
.
If your connection fails for any reason, you will be disconnected from the server. Some common reasons for being disconnected immediately include:
- Connecting on the wrong port
- Connecting to the wrong server
- Using an incorrect username and/or password
If you send an invalid command, you will receive a 421 numeric back:
< CAP REQ :multi-prefix
> :tmi.twitch.tv 421 you CAP :Unknown command
A brief list of commands supported by our IRC server include:
JOIN #channelname
Notes:
- You should not JOIN any chat room other than the one which you are connected to the server of.
- See Further Notes for more information
- After a successful JOIN, the following will take place:
- You will be sent a list of users that are currently in the channel.
- A number of MODEs will be set from the jtv user to signify that a user can moderate chat. Users that can moderate chat are are defined as Channel Moderators, Admin's and Staff.
< JOIN #channelname
> JOIN #channelname
> 353: = #channelname nickname nickname2 nickname3 nickname4 anotherNickname
> 353: = #channelname nickname25 nickname26 nicknameN
> 366: #channelname End of /NAMES list
> jtv MODE #ignproleague +o ignproleague
> jtv MODE #ignproleague +o ravager01
> jtv MODE #ignproleague +o mirhi
> jtv MODE #ignproleague +o zadr
PART #channelname
< PART #channelname
> PART #channelname
WHO #channel
< WHO #channelname
> 352: #channelname nickname channelname.tmi.twitch.tv tmi.twitch.tv username H 0 realname
> 352: #channelname nickname2 channelname.tmi.twitch.tv tmi.twitch.tv username H 0 realname
> ...
> 352: #channelname nicknameN channel.tmi.twitch.tv tmi.twitch.tv username H 0 realname
> 315: #channelname End of /WHO list
:[email protected] JOIN #channelname
:[email protected] PART #channelname
:[email protected] PRIVMSG #channel :message that was sent
- A list of users that are currently in a channel is sent after a successful JOIN, so WHO is often not required.
- Due to caching, JOINs and PARTs are not sent immediately to a channel. They are instead batched up and sent every 10 seconds.
- After receiving your initial list of users or after performing your first WHO, it is recommended to process PARTs and JOINs as they come in instead of re-requesting this list from the server.
- Due to caching, the response of this command may be delayed by up to 10 seconds on initial connect and may be up, but no more than, to 10 seconds out of date.
- You cannot request a list of users for a channel that you did not JOIN.