gcmartinelli / slicktwitch

Twitch video and chat on the terminal

slicktwitch

Simple shell script that runs VLC and IRSSI to launch a Twitch video and Twitch chat on the terminal.

Only tested on Linux.

Use at your own risk.

Usage

-h | --help see help

-x | --nochat stream only mode

-n NICK | --nick=NICK set Twitch chat nick

-c CHANNEL | --channel=CHANNEL set Twitch channel name

-q QUALITY | --quality=QUALITY {best|worst|audio_only} set stream quality

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Dependencies

• VLC Media Player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc
• IRSSI - https://www.irssi.org
• streamlink - https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink

Instalation

1. Clone with git clone https://github.com/gcmartinelli/slicktwitch.git
2. Navigate to the directory where you cloned the script
3. Launch with ./slicktwitch.sh

Optional step: Add alias "slicktwitch=/path/to/slicktwitch.sh" to your .bashrc file and launch with slicktwitch command.

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Possible new features

• Nick command line argument
• Channel command line argument
• Stream quality command line argument
• List channels you follow that are live
• Allow change of channel
• Allow change of stream quality (defaults to the best available right now)