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Redirect YouTube Live Chat Discord

A simple Python 🐍 server that redirects to a YouTube πŸ“Ί channel's most recent live chat πŸ’¬ URL.

This script is primarily intended to run as a local server that can be embedded as multiple browser sources or Browser Docks in OBS Studio. The server will redirect πŸ‘‰ to the most recent live chat URL for the given YouTube channel ID.

Rationale

My OBS setup references YouTube live chat URLs in three different places; it was tedious updating them all prior to going live πŸ“‘ Now I reference http://localhost:8008 instead and the server takes care of the rest.

Caveats

The script does not use YouTube APIs, it will blindly πŸ™ˆ derive a live chat URL from the most recent videoId found for the given channel; even if that videoId wasn't a live stream. This is by design to keep things simple.

Usage

usage: redirect-livechat.py [-h] [--addr ADDR] [--port PORT] channel_id

YouTube live chat re-director

positional arguments:
  channel_id            youtube channel ID

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --addr ADDR, -a ADDR  ip address
  --port PORT, -p PORT  port to listen on

example:

  redirect-livechat.py UCQvWX73GQygcwXOTSf_VDVg

This will start a webserver on localhost:8008, the output looks something like this:

Directing to https://www.youtube.com/live_chat?dark_theme=1&is_popout=1&v=D87-XmWigY0 via localhost:8008
127.0.0.1 - - [18/Feb/2021 13:30:15] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 -

Ctrl + C exits.

From Docker

Run the following commands to build and run the Docker container:

$ docker build -t redirect-livechat .
$ docker run -p 8008:8008 -it redirect-livechat -a 0.0.0.0 UCQvWX73GQygcwXOTSf_VDVg

From Source

  • Clone this git repository
  • Run redirect-livechat.py with a YouTube channel ID.
  • Update your OBS browser source(s) and Browser Dock(s) to reference http://localhost:8008

TODO

  • Make a Snap
  • Make a Docker

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