[Suggestion] Would it be possible to put an "Import" option?

[mauro-cb]

Hello, while I was using the program, I saw the option to export a file with messages made live in TSV format.

In videos that I edit, I often put screenshots of things that were said in the chat and for some time now I have been wanting to put the viewer's avatar in these screenshots and with this TSV I saw this possibility.

I don't know of any program that makes TSV look like a chat. Would it be possible to put an "Import" option in the program that would reproduce the speeches in the saved file?

[steveseguin]

I don't know of any program that makes TSV look like a chat. Would it be possible to put an "Import" option in the program that would reproduce the speeches in the saved file?

Which program exactly? Did you want social stream to import messages from a tsv file? It might be possible, but it would be a challenge to perhaps know when the file was updated.

There is an API for social stream already, to send messages into Social Stream, if that's of interest:
There's a page here with test buttons https://socialstream.ninja/sampleapi.html?session=YOURSTREAMIDHERE

[mauro-cb]

Yes, what I was trying to say was that it would be nice if social_stream could reproduce a TSV.

I will try to exemplify:

Let's suppose I did a live on Twitch answering the chat and I want to post an clip of it on YouTube

To do this, I enabled the option to export comments:

*It exports a TSV file

And one of the comments I received while doing live was this:

When I go to edit the video a few days later, I open the file in some TSV reader and it looks like this:

With this appearance, it is impossible to use in the video.

My intention would be to have a print with the social network icon, the person's profile photo and their nickname and message. All this in a chat aspect like the other screenshot, but this is lost when closing OBS.

It would be great to be able to send the TSV to social_stream and have it emulate the message as it was when it was sent.