twitch-search

Twitch Search Utility

Lists live followed channels and lists VoDs.

Install

Usual Go tools: go build ., go install ..

You will also need to register your application on twitch and insert http://localhost:9001/callback as redirect URL. Once you have client ID and secret, put them in ~/.twitch-search-client.json as:

{
  "id": "<your-client-id>",
  "secret": "<your-client-secret>"
}

Usage

Use the -live flag to list followed live channels.

List VoDs of channel given by -vod.

fzf Integration

The following snippets integrate twitch-search with fzf. They can be used to have interactive search and starting your video player on the video that you select.

# List VoDs and start selection with streamlink
twitch_search_vods() {
  twitch-search -vod="$1" \
    | fzf --ansi --height=50% --layout=reverse \
    | awk '{print $1}' \
    | xargs -I{} -o bash -c 'mpv --terminal=no {} & echo {}'
}

# List live channels and start streamlink and chatterino on the selection
twitch_search_live() {
  twitch-search -live \
    | fzf --ansi --height=50% --layout=reverse \
    | awk '{print $1}' \
    | xargs -I{} -o bash -c 'mpv --terminal=no https://twitch.tv/{} & echo {}'
}