README.md

Twitchly.co - Twitch Chat Monitor

Twitchly is side project of Vanila Team which monitor twhich chat channels and provide some stats.

Main idea for this project was to get idea how fast twitch chat is, or whats most popular word.

As being on Twitch Chat last 5 years 24/7, I (Stefan Smiljkovic), wanted to extract some interesting stats from twitch chat.

With 100+ milion monthly unqiue users, Twitch can be great platform to analyze and experiment.

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Demo

To see current demo in action go to http://twitchly.co

Features

• Total message counting from the start of the app
• Average chat speed (messages/second)
• Most typed word
• Top speaker (user who write most)
• Top 10 channels sorted by chat speed m/s
• Saving data in MongoDB
• Display data over selected time period
• Can't remember others, but will soon

Install

• First, you need the latest Node.js (LTS or mainstream) with NPM.
• Then, you need to have MongoDB up and running (see official site for instructions).
• Clone the repository.
• Run npm install.
• Copy config.default.json to config.json or open config.json if it already exist.
• Edit the configuration file according to your needs :
  • Events channel is an array defining which channels are classified as events and are hosted on differents servers.
  • serve-port define the public http port.
  • socketio-port define the Socket.io listening port (usually same as serve-port)
  • url define on which url your app will be reachable.
  • twitch username is your username on twitch
  • twitch oauth-password is your token. You can get yours at http://www.twitchapps.com/tmi/.
  • debug-mode let you show more info into the console.
• Then you may be able to run the app with node main.js.