rofi-ttv

A scripts that uses rofi, youtube-dl and mpv to view twitch streams.

📦 Installation

Just git clone this repo and place the rofi-ttv file somewhere on your PATH and make sure it is executable chmod +x rofi-ttv.

For Arch Linux (and derivatives):

paru -S rofi-ttv-git

Dependencies

• curl
• jq
• rofi
• youtube-dl
• mpv

⚙️ Configuration

To view your followed channels, you will need to tell rofi-ttv your username. To specify your username you can either use the $TTV_USERNAME environment variable or you can write it to ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/rofi-ttv/username for example:

$ echo "your_username" > ~/.config/rofi-ttv/username

If in doubt see the help:

$ rofi-ttv -h
Dynamic menu interface for Twitch.tv

To set your twitch username, either use the 'TTV_USERNAME'
environment variable or write it to '~/.config/rofi-ttv/username':

$ echo "your_username" > ~/.config/rofi-ttv/username

Usage:
  rofi-ttv [-hf] [followed|search [QUERY]]
    -h                         Display this help message.
    -f                         Menu format.
                               default: \(.user_name//.display_name)\t\(.game_name[:30])\t\(.title[:50])\t👤 \(.viewer_count//"???")
  rofi-ttv search QUERY...     Search channels.
    QUERY                      Search query.
  rofi-ttv followed            Show followed channels.

To adjust the format with which the streams appear in the menu, use the -f option, a list of fields can be found in the twitch api docs.