# twitch-irc-rs
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This is a client library to interface with [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/) chat.
This library is async and runs using the `tokio` runtime.
Example usage (This is the `simple_listener` example, see `examples/simple_listener.rs` and run it with `cargo run --example simple_listener`):
```rust
use twitch_irc::login::StaticLoginCredentials;
use twitch_irc::TwitchIRCClient;
use twitch_irc::{ClientConfig, SecureTCPTransport};
#[tokio::main]
pub async fn main() {
// default configuration is to join chat as anonymous.
let config = ClientConfig::default();
let (mut incoming_messages, client) =
TwitchIRCClient::<SecureTCPTransport, StaticLoginCredentials>::new(config);
// first thing you should do: start consuming incoming messages,
// otherwise they will back up.
let join_handle = tokio::spawn(async move {
while let Some(message) = incoming_messages.recv().await {
println!("Received message: {:?}", message);
}
});
// join a channel
// This function only returns an error if the passed channel login name is malformed,
// so in this simple case where the channel name is hardcoded we can ignore the potential
// error with `unwrap`.
client.join("sodapoppin".to_owned()).unwrap();
// keep the tokio executor alive.
// If you return instead of waiting the background task will exit.
join_handle.await.unwrap();
}
```
Check out the [documentation on docs.rs](https://docs.rs/twitch-irc) for more details.