Chat on your stream: Twitch, Kick and YouTube

Show your chat on the stream and read it on your phone. Twitch and Kick need nothing but your channel name. YouTube needs a free key from Google, which takes about five minutes.

Where your chat comes from

Chat is a Chat overlay in one of your scenes. The app reads the channel you type into that overlay, and the same chat shows in the chat panel on your live screen.

1. Open the Scenes tab and pick a scene.
2. Tap + Chat to add a Chat overlay, or open the one you already have.
3. Under Platform, pick Twitch, Kick or YouTube and type your channel.

You do not need to sign in to read chat. Signing in to Twitch (Settings, Twitch account) is only needed to send messages from the live screen and to set your stream title and category when you go live.

YouTube chat: getting your free API key

YouTube only lets apps read live chat with an API key, and each streamer uses their own. It is free, and the key stays on your phone: it is left out of config exports and hidden in logs.

1. On a computer or your phone's browser, go to console.cloud.google.com and sign in with any Google account.
2. Create a project (the name does not matter).
3. Open APIs & Services, then Library. Search for YouTube Data API v3 and tap Enable.
4. Open Credentials, then Create credentials, then API key. Copy the key it shows you.
5. In LOLS IRL, open the Settings tab and scroll down to YouTube chat. Paste the key into API key and tap Save key. It then says "A key is saved."
6. In your Chat overlay, pick YouTube and enter your @handle, your channel link, or a video link.

YouTube chat only exists while a stream is live, so the overlay stays quiet until you are live on YouTube. A default Google project allows 10,000 units a day, and the YouTube chat section in Settings shows how much the app has used today.

If chat does not load

• Check the channel. The chat panel on your live screen says if a channel was not found or a key is missing.
• YouTube says it needs a key. The key goes in the Settings tab, not in the overlay.
• Where Twitch, Kick or YouTube are blocked, for example in mainland China or on some school and work networks, chat can only load with a VPN on the phone.

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