Twitch, YouTube Live and Kick

Follow a Twitch, YouTube or Kick channel: go-live posts in a channel, stream-overlay alerts, "Live now" on your fan hub, and "Live on …" next to the streamer's name.

Before you start

• Plans. Available on the Creator and Business plans. Each service has its own count of followed channels: Creator up to 5 each for Twitch, YouTube and Kick, Business up to 25 each. Self-hosted servers have every feature on.
• Who. The Manage integrations permission (Owners, Admins, or a custom role that grants it).
• Where. Org Settings → Integrations, in the Twitch, YouTube Live and Kick sections. On a phone you can see what's followed; following and changing channels is done on a computer.

Needs setup on the server. Each of the three appears only when the server's operator has set it up: a registered Twitch application for Twitch, a YouTube Data API key for YouTube Live (plus a Google sign-in client if members should link YouTube), and a registered Kick app for Kick. Until then the section says the service isn't set up on this server. On the hosted service, ask us at [email protected]; on your own server, see the self-hosting configuration guide.

Twitch and Kick tell Missived about events by calling the server, so a self-hosted server needs a public https address for them. The section says so when this server can't receive events.

What following a channel does

Posts come from a bot named after the channel (with a BOT badge), as cards with the channel's avatar and a link to watch. Each event posts once, even if the service delivers it twice. Mentions in a viewer's message (a resub or cheer message) never notify anyone.

Twitch

1. The streamer links Twitch. In Settings → Calendar & connections → Connections (phone: You → Connections), they choose Link as a broadcaster. Twitch asks them to let Missived read subscriptions, followers, bits and channel-points redemptions. It's read-only: Missived never posts to Twitch.
2. Follow the channel. In Org Settings → Integrations → Twitch → Follow a channel, pick Whose channel, the channel to Post into, an optional Name, and the switches below. Choose Follow.
3. Each Twitch subscription shows Confirming for a few seconds while Twitch checks this server, then On.

Post into the channel when the stream…

Also: Overlay alerts (on), "Live now" on the public hub (on), and "Live on Twitch" next to the broadcaster's name (on; shown only if they turned on Share my activity).

A go-live post looks like this:

🔴 Casey just went live — https://www.twitch.tv/casey
[card] Casey is live: Speedrun night
       Playing Celeste · 42 watching

An org can follow a channel once. A link made before the Twitch integration only had the subscriptions permission: the streamer links again as a broadcaster to add the rest.

YouTube Live

1. In Org Settings → Integrations → YouTube Live → Follow a channel, paste the YouTube channel (youtube.com/@name or its UC… id; a single video is refused), pick where to Post in, and an optional Name.
2. Choose what posts under Post when the channel…:

3. Two more switches: Show "Live now" on this org's public hub while it streams, and Show "Live on YouTube" next to the creator's name (only if they linked that channel under Settings → Connections and share their activity).

A followed row shows the next scheduled stream when there is one ("Next stream: … in 3 hours"). New uploads that aren't streams are a feed, which needs no setup on the server.

YouTube has no "went live" notification for other people's channels, so Missived notices a new stream from the channel's uploads within a few minutes (at once when the server receives YouTube's push notifications), then checks it every few minutes around its start time. The server has a daily allowance of YouTube API calls; if it is used up, checks wait until the next day and the section says so.

Kick

1. In Org Settings → Integrations → Kick → Follow a channel, enter the Kick channel (kick.com/name or just the name), where to Post in, and an optional Name. The streamer doesn't need to do anything.
2. Choose what posts under Post when…:

3. Three more switches: Fire this org's stream-overlay alerts for follows, subs, gifts, KICKs and redemptions, Show "Live now" on the hub, and Show "Live on Kick" next to the streamer's name (only if they linked Kick and share their activity).

The row says how many events Kick has subscribed, for example "8 of 8 Kick events subscribed". Kick chat messages and bans are never subscribed.

Overlay, hub and the "Live" line

• Stream overlay. Alerts appear on the org's overlay: Org Settings → Fan Hub → Stream overlay (OBS). Add its URL as a Browser source in OBS or Streamlabs. Under Alerts, the Twitch and Kick rows each have their own on/off switch, headline and subtitle, sound and image; Test sends a preview. Keep the overlay URL private, and rotate it if it leaks.
• Live now. While a followed channel streams (with its hub switch on), the org's public fan hub lists it with a link to watch.
• "Live on Twitch / YouTube / Kick". Shown next to the streamer's name in the member list, Org Overview and profile cards, only while they have Share my activity on. A person has one line; if they're live in two places, the newest wins. See the activity line.

Manage a followed channel

Each row has:

• Pause / Resume. Nothing posts or alerts while paused. For Twitch, Missived removes its subscriptions at Twitch and makes them again on Resume.
• Check now. Re-checks the channel: makes again any subscription the service dropped and refreshes whether it's live.
• Edit. Change the channel, name and switches.
• Recent checks (Twitch: Recent activity). The latest checks and deliveries, and what posted.
• Remove. Stops following. Past posts stay.

Every change appears in the org's Audit log.

What data moves

Missived never sells or shares data, and nothing moves until someone in the org connects a channel.

• Twitch. When a streamer links as a broadcaster, Missived keeps their Twitch id, name and avatar, and Twitch's access token, encrypted. It asks Twitch to send events for that one channel; Twitch sends them with the viewer's Twitch name and any message they wrote, and those become the posts. Missived keeps the channel's settings and whether it's live.
• YouTube. Missived reads the followed channel's public uploads and live-stream details; following needs no YouTube account. A creator who links YouTube lets Missived read which channel is theirs, nothing else.
• Kick. Missived asks Kick to send events for the followed channel. For the subscriber role, it keeps each subscriber's Kick user id, username and subscription expiry for this org. Removing the channel deletes those rows.
• Posts are ordinary messages: searchable, and encrypted at rest where the org encrypts content.

Limits

• Followed channels per plan, per service: Creator 5, Business 25.
• At most 60 posts an hour across all of an org's connected channels and feeds.
• Check now on a Twitch channel: 10 a minute.

Troubleshooting

• A Twitch subscription shows Failed ("link again as a broadcaster"): the streamer's link is missing a permission. They link again as a broadcaster, then you choose Check now.
• Paused automatically. A channel pauses itself when the streamer revokes Missived's access on Twitch, or after 10 failed checks in a row. The person who added it gets an email and an Activity item. Fix the cause (the streamer links again), then Resume.
• "Your plan's … channels are all in use": remove one, or move to a plan with more.
• Kick shows "Partly subscribed": Kick refused some events; the row names them. Kick also drops events that fail to deliver for a day; the regular check, or Check now, subscribes again.
• Nothing arrives on a self-hosted server: Twitch and Kick deliver only to a public https address.