Twitch IRC Chat

For some time now I've been using IRC to connect to Twitch chat channels rather than using the Twitch chat in the browser and I can highly recommend it.

It has several advantages over the browser version:

• connect to multiple channels at once and switch between them easily (handy if you're a moderator).

• highlight text that contains certain keywords (customizable)

  • right click options (customizable)

  • buttons for mod actions (customizable)

  • system tray notifications on certain events (customizable)

  • last but not least, it's not in a browser :)

Rather than typing everything out and providing screenshots to illustrate the whole process, I went ahead and made a video (as you can see below).

IRC clients that work with Twitch and are easy to setup:

• HexChat (used in the video): http://hexchat.github.io/

• YChat (XChat2 for Windows): http://www.silverex.org/download/

Important: As of Sept 18 2013, you now require an OAuth token to connecto to twitch via IRC. I have created a desktop application that will generate Twitch chat tokens. You can download it here.