Connect Twitch accounts to a Lichess Account

[nojoking]

It would be great if users could link their twitch and lichess accounts via a Twitch Oauth page on Lichess. Then add twitch account to the Lichess API. It would opens up lots of possibilities for devs to do Twitch/Lichess things.

[hb20007]

What exactly are the possibilities if this is implemented? Maybe a few examples?

[nojoking]

Off the top of my head.

• No more needing to manually re-verify when a streamer changes their stream page URL
• If a streamer is playing from an account other than their account with the streamer page they could still activate it.
• Twitch subscribers or mods could be automatically given access to Lichess things. Teams/Simuls/Tourneys/etc.

[schlawg]

@nojoking

Who implemented twitch integration in the first place? I see thibault on gitlens but sometimes files get moved and history is lost. (getting thoughts on this is probably a good idea)

[nojoking]

I'm 99% sure it was Thibs.

[schlawg]

This sounds like a neat feature for the streamers. And mods due to the validation it enables.

I don't have the lichess.org twitch oauth secret and would probably need to set up a fictional org, complete with fictional streamers on twitch just to work on this. No idea what that would involve, but I'm reluctant to get started without feedback from the "twitch guy" (the elusive figure we are 99% sure is thibault).