Restream Buddy Desktop

The project started on live-stream where I started using some AI tools like V0, or Loveable to create an electronJS based app to create a hot-keys triggering software from my live stream's chat. Since I've been using Restream IO for streaming, I had to figure out a way to respond to the chat in a unified way instead of having a solution for multiple platforms. I currently stream on YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TikTok. Gathering messages from all of them was a challenge. So I decided to use the Restream IO's embedded chat feature. Which is basically a URL with a token that you can open on Chrome to see chat messages from all platforms, and respond to them as well.

In ElectronJS, we open a browser window in the background with that URL. And then we observe the messages, if they contain a command, we try to look into our application's list of commands the user has created already. If a match is found, the respective hot-key is triggered, or the respective sound file is played.

Set up

• clone the repository
• copy the .env.example file and rename to .env at the root of this project
  • Add the value of the RESTREAM_CHAT_LINK variable. It should look something like https://chat.restream.io/embed?token=<TOKEN_VALUE>
• Run npm install from the root of this project
• Run npm start

Packaging for production

• run npm run make to create the binaries for production

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