tmijs/tmi.js

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1589 stars · 204 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

tmi.js is a JavaScript library for connecting to and interacting with Twitch chat (IRC) from Node.js or the browser. It provides a client for reading messages, sending chat commands, and building Twitch bots and chat overlays.

Use cases

• build a twitch chat bot
• connect to twitch chat from nodejs
• create a chat overlay for obs
• handle twitch chat commands like !hello
• read twitch chat messages anonymously
• send messages to twitch chat with a bot account

When to choose

• you need a battle-tested JavaScript client for Twitch chat IRC
• you want to build Twitch bots or chat overlays in Node.js or the browser
• you want a simple event-based API for reading and sending chat messages

When to avoid

• you need Twitch API features beyond chat (the IRC connection lost some commands in 2023)
• you are building bots for platforms other than Twitch
• you need a fully supported long-term solution without awareness of the planned v2 rewrite

Facets

library · maturity active

websocket http-client chatbot sdk messaging-platforms chatbots web-development developer-tools browser cross-platform twitch tmi irc chat streaming twitch-bots chat-overlay nodejs javascript

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