View on NPM Releases on GitHub
NPM GitHub
JavaScript Package for Twitch Chat
Connect to and interact with Twitch chat (IRC) from Node.js or a browser.
View on NPM Releases on GitHub
Getting Started Guide

Getting started

Install

Install using npm:

					npm i tmi.js

Anonymous connection

 
					
const tmi = require('tmi.js');

const client = new tmi.Client({
	channels: [ 'my_name' ]
});

client.connect();

client.on('message', (channel, tags, message, self) => {
	// "Alca: Hello, World!"
	console.log(`${tags['display-name']}: ${message}`);
});

OAuth token authorization

 
					
const tmi = require('tmi.js');

const client = new tmi.Client({
	options: { debug: true },
	identity: {
		username: 'my_bot_name',
		password: 'oauth:my_bot_token'
	},
	channels: [ 'my_name' ]
});

client.connect();

client.on('message', (channel, tags, message, self) => {
	// Ignore echoed messages.
	if(self) return;

	if(message.toLowerCase() === '!hello') {
		// "@alca, heya!"
		client.say(channel, `@${tags.username}, heya!`);
	}
});

Simple command handler

 
					
client.on('message', (channel, tags, message, self) => {
	if(self || !message.startsWith('!')) return;

	const args = message.slice(1).split(' ');
	const command = args.shift().toLowerCase();

	if(command === 'echo') {
		client.say(channel, `@${tags.username}, you said: "${args.join(' ')}"`);
	}
});

Guide

Client options
Parameter Type Default Description
options object {} General options object
debug boolean false Sets the log level of the logger to "info" which will log connection and chat events.
messagesLogLevel string "info" Sets the log level of chat messages. Useful for custom logging of chat messages while keeping more general events.
joinInterval number 2000 Controls the delay in milliseconds between JOIN requests when using the channels array option. Minimum of 300 milliseconds. If the identity has special permission from Twitch for a higher join rate then you should implement your own calls to the client.join method.
skipMembership boolean false Disables receiving JOIN/PART events for other users. Good for decreasing network traffic when joining lots of channels or you don't care about this data. After a threshold per channel Twitch stops sending this data so it may not be necessary for all cases.
skipUpdatingEmotesets boolean false Disables the fetch request for getting the emote about your emotesets data. This will affect automatic emote parsing for self messages.
updateEmotesetsTimer number 60000 Sets the timer delay in milliseconds for automatically refetching the emotesets data. Set to 0 to disable the timer. Good for decreasing network traffic.
clientId string null Sets the client ID for the emotesets API call.
channels string[] [] Channels to automatically join upon connecting. The rate of joins is controlled by the options.joinInterval option.
identity object {} Options for the identity of the authenticated user. Omit for an anonymous connection.
username string undefined The username associated with the OAuth token.
password string | () => (string | Promise<string>) undefined An OAuth token with chat:read and/or chat:edit scopes. Can either be a string or a function that returns either a string or Promise that resolves to a string.
connection object {} Options for the connection itself.
reconnect boolean true Automatically reconnect the client if it gets disconnected for any reason. Sometimes Twitch will request the client to reconnect and tmi.js will disconnect and reconnect even if this option is set to false.
secure boolean true If omitted then when connection.server and connection.port are not specified then this option will be true. This will then set the port to 443 and use the WSS protocol (secure WebSocket) when connecting to the server.
server string
port number
maxReconnectAttempts number Infinity Maximum number of reconnect attempts before it stops attempting. Set to the value to Infinity to not reconnecting. The "maxreconnect" event will be emitted as well an error logged.
reconnectInterval number 1000 The base time in milliseconds that the reconnect timer will delay to attempt a reconnect.
maxReconnectInterval number 30000 The maximum time in milliseconds that the reconnect timer will delay to attempt another reconnect.
reconnectDecay number 1.5 A multiplier for the next reconnect timer interval. Values greater than 1 are recommended.

Send messages

You must use an authenticated client (via the identity option) to send messages to chat. This means you need an OAuth token connected to a Twitch account. Ideally this would be an alternate account dedicated to the bot, like the "Nightbot" account.