Twitch chat in rirc command-line IRC client

Jul 5, 2021 • David Wales

Today I got the Twitch chat running using the rirc command-line IRC client.

Here are the steps so I remember next time I want to do this…

Build rirc The generic instructions are on the rirc website. But I had some mac specific issues which are only solved in the dev branch as of this post. So, for me I needed to do the following:
- Clone the dev branch of rirc from GitHub:
```
git clone git@github.com:rcr/rirc.git # The dev branch is currently the default branch
cd rirc
```
- Build:
```
make
```
- I didn’t want to install it to the system, so I didn’t run make install.
Connect to Twitch over IRC using rirc
- Use this link to get an authentication token. Twitch IRC uses this instead of a password.
- Assuming you are still in the directory where you built rirc, there should be an executable called rirc. Run the following command, replacing <authentication_token> with the token you got in the previous step, and <username> with your Twitch username:
```
./rirc -s irc.chat.twitch.tv -p 6697 -w <authentication_token> -n <username>
```
  If it’s working, you should see something like this:
Join your desired channel
- IRC commands are prepended by a forward slash (/). IRC channels are prepended by a hash (#). So for example, to join the channel bandersaur, you would type the following IRC command:
```
/join #bandersaur
```
  If it worked, you should see something like:
  
  If it’s working you should now be able to send and receive messages!