Made a tool to search through Twitch chats

[johnblaze10]

How do I get the rust version i don’t see where to download it in the link

[thegasprovider]

Hey, since the repl.it doesn’t work anymore, I downloaded the .exe for windows. I tried searching through a channel and then it searched through some VODs and then the program closed itself but I don’t know what happened D:

[Frank1]

This post explains it

Made a tool to search through Twitch chats

If you’re on windows, you may be double clicking on the executable. By nature, once the program ends, the process closes (which also closes the terminal window). You can remediate this by opening command prompt/or any other terminal, then dragging and dropping the chat_reader executable into the terminal window (you should see a path get filled in), then pressing enter. To rerun the program, you can press the up arrow key and then press enter again (rather then dragging and dropping over and ov…

[thegasprovider]

Thanks Frank, didn’t think someone else had this issue

[david12]

trying to download it and i keep getting this error message, am i downloading the right one?

[Jingle]

From the looks of it, I would say Mac is set to not allow you to open unverified apps. I haven’t used a Mac in forever but this site shows the steps

How to open apps from unidentified developers on Mac

[david12]

hmm ok so i followed those steps and downloaded it and this is what comes up when i open it

[TC]

When you ran the program from the terminal, did it open in textedit on its own or did you manually open in text edit?

[david12]

this is what i get when i run the command through terminal

[TC]

It looks like you’re trying to disable gatekeeper entirely (I wouldn’t do that). Can you show the output of cd ~/Downloads && ./chat_reader_MacOS

[david12]

this is what it says

[TC]

can you do chmod +x chat_reader_MacOS

then ./chat_reader_MacOS

[david12]

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[thegasprovider]

Hey, I’m sorry to bother again, I just wanted some clarification on this. I wanted to browse through a YouTube channel (Jared Crocker), but when I put his name I get this message. I want to know if I’m doing something wrong D:

[TC]

Oh yeah, the youtube support was basically abandoned. I just got a little bored with their api, I’d recommend using https://ytcomment.kmcat.uk/ instead- my tool and kmcat’s will find identical data and kmcat’s is a bit more user friendly

[TC]

Do cd ~/Downloads then do
chmod +x chat_reader_MacOS
and
./chat_reader_MacOS

I think it will work then

[thegasprovider]

Oh yeah, I LOVE that website, was using it just now XD It’s cuz kmcat’s only browses through comments and not live chat logs, so I figured yours would do that as well. But it’s no problem, thanks for the quick reply ^^

[TC]

If you’d like to see chat logs from youtube livestreams, I’d totally recommend this tool GitHub - xenova/chat-downloader: A simple tool used to retrieve chat messages from livestreams, videos, clips and past broadcasts. No authentication needed!. I haven’t really thought of making a tool for youtube, since (in my experience) youtube livestreams are very niche and I’d have to do a lot of work figuring out their (not very intuitive) api.

[thegasprovider]

Oh yeaaah, that tool is great too!! I use it a lot as well. I was just hoping to find a tool like the one you made for Twitch, which automatically browses through ALL streams available in the channel. But don’t worry, you’re already doing God’s work by putting this tool together and making all these recommendations ^^

[Frank1]

Having some trouble again, getting this message when I try to search a twitch channel