lurp anonymously connects to a Twitch channel of your choice and outputs all chat messages to stdout. Linux only.

• libtwirc

1. Install libtwirc
   See the libtwirc Wiki for installation instructions.
2. Clone lurp

   git clone https://github.com/domsson/lurp
   

3. Run the build script

   cd lurp
   chmod +x build
   ./build
   

./lurp -c CHANNEL [options...]

Example:

./lurp -c "#esl_csgo" -t "[%H:%M:%S]" -ab -m 4bit

• -c CHANNEL: specify the channel to join; should start with # and be all lower-case
• -b: prefix usernames with @ or + for mods or subs respectively (@ has precedence)
• -d: use display names instead of user names where available
• -h: print help text and exit
• -m MODE: manually specify the color mode, see below
• -a: Neatly align (left-pad) usernames and messages
• -r: Use server-provided timestamp instead of local time
• -s: print additional status information
• -t FORMAT: specify a timestamp format; if -t isn't given, no timestamp will be printed
• -v: print version information and exit

lurp makes an educated guess as to how many colors your terminal supports and tries to make use of that. However, you can override this by explicitly specifying the color mode yourself. The following options are available:

• mono: monochrome, no colors
• 2bit: 8 colors
• 4bit: 16 colors
• 8bit: 256 colors
• true: true color (RGB, 16777216 colors)

Currently, the color conversion algorithms used by lurp are clumsy at best and 4bit mode actually seems to yield the most pleasent results. On top of that, 4bit seems to be pretty widely supported.