twitchlive

A CLI tool to list which twitch channels you follow are currently live.

Setup

• Setup the twitch-cli tool, that handles storing and refreshing the token to a file. That expires every 2 months, can be refreshed by running twitch token
• Go/Install twitchlive
  • Install go if you haven't already, make sure your $GOPATH and $GOBIN environment variables are set.
  • Run: go install "github.com/purarue/twitchlive@latest"

Run

Basic Text Output:

$ twitchlive
xQcOW | 01:01 | 61407 | (CLICK HERE) CHILL THEN WORLD FIRST FINALE ELDEN RING BEATING
Sykkuno | 04:26 | 24326 | chill day
DisguisedToast | 02:19 | 8245 | Detective Al Rashio | GTA RP | No Pixel
boxbox | 00:53 | 3646 | 70 lp to challenger PauseChamp i might be here
Scarra | 05:10 | 2367 | valo -> LOST ARK  | !vods
baoo | 00:46 | 1327 | First Date With Ywuria !valentinemerch !soundalerts

You can use the -delimeter flag to specify what to separate each field with.

Table Output:

twitchlive -username=<some_other_username> -output-format=table
+---------------+--------+--------------+-------------------------------------+
|     USER      | UPTIME | VIEWER COUNT |            STREAM TITLE             |
+---------------+--------+--------------+-------------------------------------+
| nl_Kripp      | 05:27  |        14683 | Chill BG Night | Twitter            |
|               |        |              | @Kripparrian                        |
| sodapoppin    | 06:42  |        14003 | serkfgjhlbnlsebfoldtghnodilurngudrg |
| LilyPichu     | 04:01  |         7676 | hhiiiii                             |
| Mizkif        | 08:47  |         6742 | YO GET IN HERE                      |
| SirhcEz       | 01:44  |         1430 | SINGEEDDDDDD | SirhcEz cafe &       |
|               |        |              | chill | #LeaguePartner              |
+---------------+--------+--------------+-------------------------------------+

JSON:

As an example use case, get average viewer count of channels I follow which are currently live:

$ twitchlive -output-format=json \
| jq -r '.[] | "\(.viewer_count)"'\
| awk '{total += $0} END { print int(total/NR) }'
5611

... or check if a particular channel is live, by greping against the output.

if twitchlive -output-format=json | jq -r '.[] | "\(.username)"' | grep -ixq xqcow; then
    echo "Pepega is live."
fi

Usage

A CLI tool to list which twitch channels you follow are currently live.

Usage for twitchlive:
  -delimiter string
    	string to separate entries when printing (default " | ")
  -output-format string
    	possible values: 'basic', 'table', 'json' (default "basic")
  -timestamp
    	print unix timestamp instead of stream duration
  -timestamp-seconds
    	print seconds since epoch instead of unix timestamp
  -twitch-cli-env-path string
    	path to the twitch-cli config file (default "/home/username/.config/twitch-cli/.twitch-cli.env")
  -username string
    	specify user to get live channels for