OBS YouTube Comment
Display YouTube Comments in your OBS stream.
Uses the OBS WebSocket plugin and Tampermonkey browser plugin.
Note: doesn't support emojis yet (see To Do at the bottom).
To Use
OBS Setup
- Install the OBS WebSocket plugin
- Configure the password in OBS "Tools > WebSockets Server Plugin".
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Add three sources to your scene, with the following names:
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YTCommentText
of type "Text (FreeType 2)" for the comment text. -
YTCommentAuthor
of type "Text (FreeType 2)" for the comment author. -
YTCommentPhoto
of type "Browser" for the comment author photo.
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Position and compose them where you want them. You probably want to enable word-wrapping, and set a custom width.
Browser Setup
- Install the Tampermonkey plugin to your browser.
- Open the Tampermonkey settings in your browser.
- Click on "Utilities".
- Paste the following URL into the "Install from URL" text box:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jwulf/obs-youtube-comment/main/tampermonkey.js
- Click "Install".
- Reload the Youtube live chat popup in your browser.
You should now see a userscript loaded on the Tampermonkey plugin.
- Click the Tampermonkey icon in the browser plugins section:
- Click on "Configuration"
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Enter the password you set for the OBS Web Socket Server plugin.
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Click "Save"
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Reload the page to establish the connection.
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When you mouse over a comment, you will see the background turn blue. Click on the comment to send it to your OBS Stream.
To Do
Deal with emojis. Some leads:
- [Reddit: Using Emojis w/ OBS Text(FreeType 2)](https://www.reddit.com/r/obs/comments/7vn04l/using_emojis_w_obs_textfreetype_2/) and the [OBS GitHub issue](https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/3127).
- The [text-pango](https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/text-pango-multi-language-and-emoji.656/) plugin. (Doesn't do word wrap).
A heavier-weight solution would be to run a local process (or find or write a remote service) that renders the comment into a graphic, and then insert the composed graphic as a browser element source. That's a lot more work than the current solution, which is pretty light-weight.