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Kick Chat Scraper: archive live chat before it disappears forever (opens in new tab)

Covers Kick.com quality?Discussed on DEV

Quick answer: Kick.com exposes no API for past chat and no download button. A kick chat scraper connects to Kick's public Pusher WebSocket — the same one the kick.com website uses to render chat — subscribes to one or more channels by slug, and archives every message in real time with sender, role, badges, hex color, and timestamps. The Apify Actor below costs $0.001 per message (~$1.05 per 1,000). Once a stream ends, that chat is gone. You have one window to capture it: while the stream is l...

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