Kappa Launcher is a simple bash script that uses rofi to display and launch your followed Twitch streams.
- Displays all live Twitch streams that you follow.
- Shows information about these streams, such as the currently played game, number of viewers and title.
- Launches said streams, with the option of selecting video quality.
- Supports streamlink, chatterino, chatty or just plain twitch in a browser.
- Streams that you don't follow can also be looked up and launched.
# Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/jp1995/kappa-launcher
# Change your current directory to kappa-launcher
$ cd kappa-launcher
# Install it
$ sudo make installFor Arch based distros, an AUR package is available at
yay -S kappa-launcher-gitWhen updating, you may get an error like the local download is not a clone of ... this repo. Github deprecated the protocol previously used in the source URL of the PKGBUILD, and so it had to be updated. Just do a cleanbuild. It's a one time thing.
The binary (executable) is named kpl.
On first launch the script creates a configuration file in .config/kpl. You must then edit this file with your Twitch OAuth token. If you wish, you can also change various other options here.
Once you have done this, simply run the script again.
Requirements:
- rofi
- jq
- streamlink
Optionally, you'll also need chatterino or chatty for the chat client and xdg-utils for the browser function.
Using streamlink to get the possible quality values is slow. Getting this from the twitch API would be a lot better. However, this is currently not possible.
I am not an actual programmer. This code could likely be written in a more clean, concise way. I welcome suggestions and constructive criticism.
i3 users can edit the launcher function to include some layout solution to further automatize the process. For example:
i3-msg "workspace number 3" &&
exec layout_manager.sh TWITCH
streamlink twitch.tv/...