A lightweight Chrome Extension (Manifest V3) that tracks your favorite Kick.com creators and notifies you the moment they go live.
- Live Desktop Alerts — Instant notifications when streamers go live.
- Toolbar Live Counter — Green badge on the extension icon showing active streams.
- Options Dashboard — Dedicated options page for polling frequency, UI scaling, sorting preferences, test notifications, and circuit breaker diagnostics.
- Global Search — Search Kick channels directly with autocomplete.
- One-Click Watch — Click any notification or card to open the stream.
- 100% Local & Private — All settings stay in your browser. Zero tracking, third-party analytics, or telemetry.
- Smart API Protection & Circuit Breaker — Canary pre-flight requests, strict schema verification, and automatic exponential backoff prevent rate-limiting or API hammering.
- Custom Polling — Configurable check intervals (1, 2, 5, 10, 15 minutes).
Works on Chrome, Vivaldi, Brave, Edge, and any Chromium browser:
- Clone or download this repository.
- Open
chrome://extensions(orvivaldi://extensions). - Turn on Developer mode (top-right).
- Click Load unpacked and select this folder.
Run the automated test suite with Bun:
bun testKick Monitor is an independent, open-source community project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Kick.com or Kick Community Pty Ltd. Built with the assistance of AI and reviewed/tested by a human developer.