nempk1 / cchat

The worst twitch chat application possible.

CCHAT (Segfault Chat)

A simple twitch chat reader for you terminal.

Table of contents (optional)

• Requirements
• Clone & Compiling
• Config & Usage

Requirements

To compile this abomination you will need the following:

• gmake
• OpenSSL OR LibreSSL
• GCC or CLANG

Clone & Compiling

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/nempk1/cchat.git
cd cchat
make

If you want to choose the compiler

CC=gcc make
# OR
CC=clang make

And pray that you will not get an error or that libconfig is not found. if libconfig is not found try adding it to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and check if the includes are being located to.

Config & Usage

1. Open the cchat.cfg.sample file in the configs/ directory
2. Add the channel, oauth and oauth_nick variables that are necessary
3. Twitch oauth code and account name related with it

• you can get one for you in the below link
• https://twitchapps.com/tmi
• you should only put the part after "PASS oauth:"
• like in this one PASS oauth:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• whould be oauth = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

4. if you want you can choose the channel to join in the running arguments.
5. After that just run it

./bin/cchat -i irc.chat.twitch.tv -p 6697 -c configs/cchat.cfg
# You change use the --channel argument to change the chat to join
# without need to change in the file.
./bin/cchat -i irc.chat.twitch.tv -p 6697 -c configs/cchat.cfg --channel nempk1