Masterchat

Masterchat is the most powerful library for YouTube Live Chat, supporting parsing 20+ actions, video comments and transcripts, as well as sending messages and moderating chats.

• 🎓 Getting Started
• 📖 References
• 🪁 Examples
• 🙋‍♀️ Ask Questions
• 🐞 Report a Bug
• 🦄 Join Community

Install

npm install masterchat

import { Masterchat, stringify } from "masterchat";

const mc = await Masterchat.init("oyxvhJW1Cf8");

const chats = mc.iter().filter((action) => action.type === "addChatItemAction");

for await (const chat of chats) {
  console.log(`${chat.authorName}: ${stringify(chat.message)}`);
}

See MANUAL for further instructions.

CLI

npm i -g masterchat-cli

mc watch --org Hololive

See masterchat-cli for detailed usage.

Desktop App

See ☄️Komet for further information.

Community

Contributing

• Use masterchat with DEBUG=masterchat and report logs that are prefixed with [action required]
• Squash TODOs

See Contribution Guide for more information. Ask questions in #masterchat channel on holodata Discord server.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

uetchy 💻

Shiaupiau 💻

Jan Procházka 💻

sphinxrave 🐛

David Chen 🐛 🤔

Evgeniy Istomin 📖

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!

Projects using Masterchat

• Holodex
• Luna's Translation
• Honeybee
• ShipID
• Komet

Related projects

• YouTube.js