IRC for Twitch guide (New + Fixed!)

[Ashardis]

Trying to remain sane with Twitch's many chat failures? We recommend running an IRC client in parallel if chat lag gets too insane.

Check out the guides for client specific info

Pidgin - An all purpose chat client with nice GUI, supporting a lot of different chatsystems - the guide only deals with the IRC part.
HexChat - IRC only, not as handsome a GUI
mIRC - Oldschool IRC client, can do incredible powerful stuff when used on more regular IRC channels/servers than Twitch's.

Note : If you had an IRC client working before and it doesn't now - follow the steps below (Guide made by Rodr1c)

Twitch changed their settings for connecting via IRC clients. Follow the directions below to get your oauth token needed instead of your password. Click the link below if you wish to see the full post by Twitch Support.

http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/a ... twitch-irc

Prerequisites
In order to connect to Twitch IRC, you must have two pieces of information:

1. The name of channel that you want to join.
2. A Twitch account.

Connecting
Once you have that information, you can then take it to connect to Twitch IRC with the following bits of information:

• The server name to connect to is: irc.twitch.tv.
• The port to connect to is 6667
• SSL is not supported for Twitch IRC.
• Your nickname must be your Twitch nickname
• Your password should be an OAuth token. You can get your oauth token here: www.twitchapps.com/tmi (Thanks Andrew Bashore!)
• An example "password" using this method would be "oauth:asdasd234asd234ad234asds23" without quotes.

[Ashardis]

HexChat (1st part made by Degobear , 2nd (small) part by Ashardis, 3rd part byTheRedFlower)

HexChat Guide

1. Download Hexchat
2. When you first launch it you should have a window like this, click "Add"
   
   
3. An option in the box to the left will open, name that "Twitch.tv" and fill in the names at the top, then click edit
   
   
4. A new window will open up. In the "Servers for Twitch.tv" change the entry to say "irc.twitch.tv" - NOT what's shown in the screenshot!!
5. Deselect "Use global user information". In "Nickname" enter your twitch username. Then in "Server password" enter your OAuth password (Follow the Pidgin guide step 7 & 8 below to get this password). You can then close this.
   
   
6. Hit connect
   
   
7. A new window will open up and you will connect to the IRC server.
   
   
8. There are two ways to join Cohh's chat.
   7a. The first is if this window pops up. Select the "Join this channel" option and enter "#cohhcarnage", then hit "OK"
   
   
   
   7b. If that window doesn't pop up, type "/join #cohhcarnage" at the bottom next to your name
   
   
9. Jobs a goodun!

To remove the frequent and spammy messages of people joining and leaving, follow these steps:

1. Click on "Setting" and select "Preferences"
   
2. Then select "Advanced" under "Chatting" and select the option "Hide join and part messages"
   

How to make HexChat automatically start up in Cohh's Twitch chat channel :

Click on "Network List"

Next bit we have some things that need to be done in the right order :

1 : Select the Twitch.tv on the Networks list and click the Favor button
2 : Checkmark in "Show favorites only"
3 : Checkmark in "Skip network list on startup" if you want a completely Cohh-focused experience, you can always open the Network list in the menu (look above) or Ctrl-S
4 : Click on "Edit" and move on to the next picture!

Only thing here is to put the checkmark and then press "Close" at the bottom twice and we're home free.

Close down HexChat and open it and witness the automation in progress!!


Thanks for reading this and I hope you'll like HexChat even better now

Now HexChat is installed - let's Customize!

Want to be able to setup a nickname to have highlighted? Great! lets go into the preferences

Go to alerts under chatting, add your name and variants thereof separated by , with no spaces needed

You can also turn off the alerts that someone is leaving/joining the channel under advanced

It defaults to highlighting the messages in green, you can change it to something more eye catching under the interface>colors option

[Ashardis]

Pidgin (First part made by Daxble321 & 2nd part made by Ashardis)

!! Pidgin Guide !!

You can download pidgin HERE

STEP 1: Open Pidgin

STEP 2: Click accounts then click manage accounts

STEP 3: A screen will pop up then click Add...

STEP 4: An add account menu will show up like this

STEP 5: Change the protocol to "IRC" and put in your username

STEP 6: Where is says server put in irc.twitch.tv

STEP 7: To get your password make sure you are signed into twitch then go here https://www.nightdev.com/hosted/tmipassword.html to get your password

STEP 8: Click the login button then your password will show
up

STEP 9: Copy and paste your password into pidgin

STEP 10: Click the buddies tab at the top then click join a chat

STEP 11: Where it says channel put in #cohhcarnage


Now Pidgin is setup properly - time for some customization :

Make Pidgin auto-connect to Cohh's stream

After successfully connecting to the chat, go back to the buddies window.
Click on "Add Chat" like the arrow



Type in the channel name : ¤cohhcarnage
Check on "Autojoin"
Click "Add"-button

Gz, pidgin will now start up with Cohh's Streamchat open

Make annoying Join/Part info in the chat window disappear

First we go to the plug-in options.


On the list, scroll down until you find & check the plugin as shown :




Note that you can Configure it to suit your purposes.

There's also a ton of other options under plugins, so play around with it!

Purple Package Plugin-Pack
(Includes highlighting of userspecified keywords!)

First of all - get the package here : https://bitbucket.org/rekkanoryo/purple ... /downloads
Windows users, get the .zip-file!

Unpack it into your Pidgin folder (Usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Pidgin)
Check if you now have a "bin"-folder in C:\Program Files (x86)\Pidgin - if you don't, you didn't unpack it right!

Close down Pidgin (rightclick the small icon in lower right corner and select Quit)

Note that default settings are that Pidgin doesn't shut down if you "just" click the red X in upper right corners of it's windows, you need to right-click-Quit the icon in the lower right corner of the desktop area!

Now start up Pidgin and you should have access to a lot of new fancy plugins!

Now, let's use that to enable custom keyword highlighting!

Go into Plug-In's again (look above for a guide)


Find, check & select the Highlight Plugin. Click on Configure Plugin
Note that this button will be greyed out until you check & select the Highlight plugin.



This opens a text box, enter your keywords here - seperate with spaces and enjoy!

Making Pidgin Chat "Always on Top"

Tools -> Plugins -> Transparency plugin check + Configure Plugin -> 2 checks = Fixed!

[Ashardis]

mIRC (Guide made by AlphaKennyHuan/Dezmer)

1. Download mIRC: http://www.mirc.co.uk/
2. When you open it will say you are on a trial just click continue even after your trial has finished you can still click continue
3. You will then be greeted by this screen



4. Then click on servers (normally there will be loads of random folders, you can delete them if you want to)



5. Next click add and type in these things - Note : Server name is irc.twitch.tv - NOT what the screenshot says! The password is your OAuth - find it by follow the steps 7 & 8 in the Pidgin Guide above!



6. Then double click on the server you created, it will be in twitch folder if you did group and the name will
be your description
It should now have switched to this screen and where it says sever should have the server that you clicked on



7. Fill out twitch name



8. Click connect then this screen will pop up



In the enter a channel part type "#cohhcarnage" and click join. You should now be in the chat

To save time joining in the future click add

No password needed for this part just type "#cohhcarnage" and if you want tick join on connect




Now mIRC is installed - time for some customization!!

1. First open mIRC
2. Click on address book



3. Go to the highlight tab, and click enable highlight



4. Click add



5. Type a word that you want to be highlighted in the first box for an example i will go with "psijp"
6. Set a colour to what ever you want or you can mess around with some other features



7. Then click OK for that, and then OK to close the address book
8. Ask someone in chat to say your word to check if it worked

[Ashardis]

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[Ashardis]

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[animurotta]

Weechat 1.0 confirmed to work

[Drast_Gaming]

The chat program that I use and HIGHLY recommend is Chatty, which can be found here: http://getchatty.sourceforge.net/

[Sabinul]

I've used mIRC in the past to mod and make a bot for a nice stream. Streamer's gone, but I still have the scripts. When I start college, I might as well start streaming and make use of it again sometime soon.
A little look inside the Cohhilition bot would be nice as it looks very nicely made and the snippets for mIRC aren't that useful.

Weechat looks nice. I might give that a try too.