Streamer pack

What you get

The streamer pack posts go-live alerts for your server's content creators on Twitch, YouTube and Kick. It's free, uses simple rules (no AI), and is off until an admin sets it up.

• Go-live alerts. When a creator goes live, Guard posts a card in your alerts channel with the stream title, game or category, thumbnail and a Watch button, plus an optional role ping. When the stream ends, the card changes to "Was live" with how long they streamed.
• One alert per stream. If a stream drops and comes back within 10 minutes, the same alert is reused, so your channel isn't spammed.
• Live now role Optional: given while someone is live, taken off when they finish.
• Live now board Optional: one pinned message listing everyone who's live right now. Set a city keyword (for example your FiveM city's name) and streams with it in the title are marked Live in your city and listed first.
• Twitch clips Optional: new clips from your Twitch creators, posted in the alerts channel.

Only members with your Content creator role can connect channels, get alerts, show on the board or get the Live role.

You'll need

• Glitchworks Guard in your Discord (add Guard), and the Manage Server permission.
• Guard's role above the Content creator and Live now roles (Server Settings > Roles: drag Glitchworks Guard up).
• About 5 minutes.

Step 1: Who and where

1. Type /streamers setup and press Enter. (It's also in /settings > Streamer pack, and on the last screen of /setup.)
2. Content creator role (required): pick the role your creators have, or press Create a Content Creator role.
3. Alerts channel: pick a channel, or press Create #stream-alerts.
4. Live now role Optional: pick one, or press Create a Live now role.
5. Ping role Optional: a role to ping when someone goes live.
6. Press Next.

The screen warns you if Guard's role is below a role it needs to give, or if it can't post in the alerts channel. Fix those first and the warning goes away.

Step 2: Platforms and extras

1. Choose the platforms: Twitch, YouTube and Kick are all on to start with.
2. Switch on the Live now board and Twitch clips if you'd like them.
3. Optional: type a city keyword, such as your FiveM city's name.
4. Press Turn on.

This screen also tells you if a platform isn't available right now, and how reliable each one is (see Good to know).

Step 3: Creators connect their channels

Give your creators the Content creator role. Each of them then types /live connect and picks one of these:

• Connect my channels: one click for Twitch and YouTube. It opens a Glitchworks page, they sign in with Discord, and Guard reads the Twitch and YouTube accounts they've connected to their Discord profile. Only verified connections that are shown on their profile are used. The browser shows Connected! and the Discord message updates. Each link works once and expires after 10 minutes.
• Paste a link: works for any platform, and is the only way for Kick. Guard looks up the channel and asks "Is this you?" with its name and picture.

A pasted link isn't proof that someone owns the channel, so pasted links are marked pasted in the lists. Staff can remove any that aren't right.

Staff commands

If someone loses the Content creator role, their alerts stop in your server, their Live now role comes off, and any open alert is retired. Their links are kept, so alerts start again if the role is given back.

Good to know

• How quickly alerts arrive: Guard checks for live streams about every minute and a half. Twitch alerts usually arrive within a couple of minutes. YouTube can take a few minutes longer, because YouTube has to list the stream first.
• Kick is best effort. Kick sometimes blocks automated checks, so Kick alerts can be late or occasionally missed.
• A stream only counts as ended after two offline checks in a row, so a quick drop doesn't end the alert.
• Each channel is checked once, however many servers use it, so adding more servers doesn't slow anything down.

Privacy

• Guard keeps each creator's channel links (channel ID, name and picture) and which servers use them.
• Connect my channels only asks Discord for the member's account and connections. The sign-in token is cancelled straight away and never stored.
• Members get their streamer links in their /mydata get report. An approved /mydata delete removes them from that server, and deletes the links completely if no other server uses them.
• Links nobody uses any more are deleted after 30 days.

Troubleshooting