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https://github.com/elythi0n/virta

🎥 Virta is the ultimate cross-platform chat aggregation engine for live streaming.
https://github.com/elythi0n/virta

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🎥 Virta is the ultimate cross-platform chat aggregation engine for live streaming.

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Virta



# Virta



Built with Electron



### Every stream. One current.



Virta is a cross-platform open-source streaming command center. It pulls together the chat from

every platform you broadcast to into a single real-time feed with moderation, cross-posting,

filtering, live analytics, highlights detection, and a plugin marketplace built on top. It stays

fast and legible under heavy load, and new platforms slot in without changes to the core.



One engine powers every interface: a desktop app, a terminal client, the browser, and a built-in

OBS overlay, with your channels, filters, profiles, and themes in sync across all of them. Run it

on your own machine by default, or host it on a server or in the cloud and reach it from

anywhere.



## Features



- **Unified, platform-tagged feed:** every chat in one strictly time-ordered stream, each

  message marked by its origin

- **Read anonymously, send when you sign in:** full read access with no account; auth is opt-in

  and per platform

- **Cross-posting:** one message to several platforms at once, rate-governed, with partial-send

  awareness (unreachable targets shown *before* you hit enter, never failed after)

- **Unified moderation:** timeouts/bans/deletes, slash commands, and an AutoMod/held-message

  queue, across platforms, from one pane

- **Filtering:** highlight, hide, and profanity-mask by platform/channel/author/keyword, plus a

  **calm mode** that keeps high-velocity chat readable without dropping a message

- **Full emotes:** native emotes plus 7TV, BTTV, and FFZ (animated, cached, live-updating)

- **Dockable workspace:** VSCode-style dockable panels, multi-window pop-outs, a command palette,

  and full keyboard navigation

- **Live stats:** concurrent viewers *per platform and combined*, messages/sec, unique chatters,

  emote leaderboards

- **Embedded stream tiles:** watch your own broadcast next to chat via each platform's player

- **Profiles:** saved workspaces (channels, layout, filters, theme, accounts) you switch between

  from a list; your last session is always restored when you open the app

- **Highlights timeline:** scrollable history of hype moments, spikes, and keyword hits from the

  session

- **Plugin marketplace:** install and manage plugins; VOD replay included out of the box

- **Local-first & private:** ephemeral by default, optional logging with instant search, SQLite

  or Postgres, secrets in your OS keychain

- **Every surface:** desktop app, terminal UI, web, and a zero-install OBS overlay, all from one

  engine

- **Extensible:** a public local API with scoped tokens, signed outbound webhooks, and shareable

  theme packs



## Table of contents



- [Why Virta](#why-virta)

- [Currently supported platforms](#currently-supported-platforms)

- [What it does](#what-it-does)

- [Surfaces](#surfaces)

- [Your data, your machine](#your-data-your-machine)

- [Extend it](#extend-it)

- [On the roadmap](#on-the-roadmap)

- [Cross-platform](#cross-platform)

- [Build & run](#build--run)

- [License](#license)



## Why Virta



Creators who stream to more than one place currently juggle several browser tabs (or pay a

subscription) just to see their own chat. Moderators working communities that span platforms

have no single pane and no fast, reliable cross-platform tooling. Viewers who follow a creator

everywhere want one window, not several.



- **Unified, not bolted-on.** Every platform normalizes into one message model, so filters,

  profiles, emote resolution, stats, and moderation are written once and apply everywhere.

- **Local-first, deploy anywhere.** The engine runs on your own machine by default, with no

  third-party service in the loop. The same design lets you host it on a server or in a container

  instead and reach it from any interface.

- **Built for performance.** The feed stays smooth and legible at high message rates; rendering

  and message processing are engineered to keep heavy work off the hot path.

- **Scales with you.** From a single channel to many across platforms, and from the built-in

  SQLite store to Postgres when you need it.

- **Transparent.** When a source degrades, the interface shows a clear, labeled state, never a

  quietly empty feed.

- **Extensible by design.** Adding a platform is a self-contained adapter; the engine, pipeline,

  storage, and interfaces stay untouched.



## Currently supported platforms



Virta is platform-agnostic at its core; these are the platforms shipping today, each declared

with the access it honestly provides.



| Platform | Read | Send & moderate | Notes |

|---|---|---|---|

| **Twitch** | anonymous or signed in | signed in | full chat, emotes, badges, events, replies |

| **Kick** | anonymous or signed in | signed in | official API for send & moderation |

| **YouTube** | anonymous or signed in | read-only | live chat via innertube; send and moderation not yet supported |

| **X** (live broadcasts) | best-effort | experimental | no official chat API exists anywhere; runs in your own browser session, clearly labeled, and isolated so its breakage never affects the others |



Each platform reports its real-time capabilities, so the UI only offers actions a platform (and

your sign-in state) actually supports. More platforms are planned; the adapter model makes them

community-contributable without engine changes.



## What it does



**The feed**

- Unified, strictly time-ordered feed with an origin mark on every row

- Per-channel panes alongside the unified feed

- Emotes: native plus 7TV / BTTV / FFZ (animated, disk-cached, live updates)

- Badges and contrast-clamped name colors; sub / raid / gift / follow event rows

- Replies and threading (quoted context, click-to-jump) where supported

- First-time-chatter highlighting

- Pause-on-hover with scrollback and an "N new messages" resume pill



**Filtering & focus**

- Keyword/mention **highlights** with desktop notifications

- **Hide** by type, author, keyword, or platform

- **Profanity / content filter:** masks matched terms with click-to-reveal, from per-language

  lists plus your own; applied before TTS and outbound integrations

- **Calm mode** for high-velocity chat: combo-collapse ("KEKW ×41"), emote-only collapse, smart

  sampling with a "+37 messages" expander, and priority lanes (mentions, mods, subs, first-timers

  are never sampled away). Shapes display only; logging and stats still see everything.



**Sending & moderation**

- Authenticated send with a send-target picker

- **Cross-posting:** one message to several targets at once, rate-governed, with **partial-send

  awareness** that shows unreachable targets dimmed and excludes them *before* the send rather

  than failing it

- **Slash commands** (`/ban`, `/timeout`, `/me`, `/slow`, …) routed to typed actions:

  capability-checked, rate-governed; unknown commands are hinted, never sent

- **Unified mod actions** from the feed (timeout/ban/delete) plus quick chat-settings toggles

  (slow mode, followers-only, emote-only)

- **AutoMod / held-message queue** with approve/deny; held messages never hit the feed until

  approved

- Transparent send queue: paced sends show a countdown and are never silently dropped



**Workspace**

- A VSCode-style dockable workspace: drag, resize, split, tab, and pop out any panel; saved per

  profile; collapses responsively down to mobile

- Command palette and full keyboard navigation; multi-window pop-outs (always-on-top)

- Embedded **stream preview tiles:** watch your broadcast next to chat via the platform's

  official player, with a live/offline + viewer badge (no video is ingested)

- **Live stats:** concurrent viewers per platform *and* a combined total, messages/sec, unique

  chatters, emote leaderboard, hype meter, and moment detection; works without logging

- **Highlights timeline:** scrollable panel of notable moments, hype spikes, and keyword hits

  from the session

- Mention inbox, user hovercards and pinned user cards (cross-platform identity, session context,

  quick actions, notes)

- Quick replies / canned messages; emote and @mention autocomplete



## Surfaces



Each surface is a full client of the same engine, with no feature locked to one of them:



- **Desktop** app with a native shell (tray, global hotkeys, multi-window)

- **Terminal UI** (SSH-able)

- **Web** app

- **OBS overlay** served directly by the engine: zero-install, profile-themed



## Your data, your machine



- **Ephemeral by default:** chat is never written to disk unless you turn on logging

- Optional logging with instant full-text search and retention control

- **SQLite** by default, switchable to **Postgres**; export or delete your data anytime

- Secrets live in your **OS keychain** (encrypted file-vault fallback), never in the database

- **No telemetry** without explicit opt-in



## Extend it



- A public, versioned local API (the same one the apps use) with scoped tokens

- Outbound, HMAC-signed webhooks (e.g. raid triggers lights) with retries and a delivery log

- Theme packs with a live-preview editor and shareable theme files

- **Plugin marketplace:** install and manage plugins from the built-in marketplace; supports

  remote GUI panels and local archive installs; includes VOD replay out of the box



## On the roadmap



- Live translation (offline detection + tiered engines)

- Per-viewer audience stats (opt-in): top fans, visit counts, favorite emotes

- An intelligence layer: search, semantic recall over your logs, and an MCP server

- Team/collaboration mode for co-streams and mod teams: coordination only, never pooled

  credentials

- Same-person linking across platforms, accessibility passes, and more platforms



## Cross-platform



Windows, macOS, and Linux are equal targets; OS-specific capabilities ship with declared

fallbacks.



## Install



Pre-built installers will be on [virta.lol](https://virta.lol) once the first release is tagged.

Until then, build from source.



## Build & run



Requires **Go 1.26+**.



```sh

make ci      # build + lint + test (race + coverage) + cross-compile; must be green

make run     # run the engine daemon (virtad)

make app     # produce the one-click desktop app for the current OS

```



The daemon binds to loopback on an ephemeral port and writes a discovery file with a bearer

token, so a frontend on the same machine finds and authenticates to it with no configuration.



## License



[AGPL-3.0](LICENSE).