twiMonBot: Never Miss a Stream

Your favorite streamer went live an hour ago, and you found out from a screenshot in a chat. Sound familiar? twiMonBot solves that: it watches channels and messages you in Telegram the moment a broadcast starts 🎮

In its profile it is listed as Twitch monitor. It tracks several streaming platforms, and you build the channel list yourself.

One bot instead of ten bookmarks

Normally you subscribe to alerts on each platform separately, and they get lost among promotional emails. Here everything arrives in the messenger you already use for friends and news.

The description says it plainly: the bot notifies you when broadcasts begin on several platforms. That is its only job, and it does it with no extra settings.

Five commands for everything

The menu is as short as it gets, and there is nothing to figure out:

• /add: add a channel to the watch list.
• /list: show all added channels.
• /delete: remove a channel you no longer care about.
• /online: show which of your channels are live right now.
• /help: open the menu.

Setting it up in a minute

1. Open the bot and press Start.
2. Type /add and send the channel name or a link to it.
3. Repeat for your other favorite streamers.
4. Check the list with /list.

After that, messages arrive on their own. Use /online if you want to see what is on air right now without opening any platform app 🔔

The bot in a group chat

If you watch streams with friends, you can add the bot to a group. Open its page, choose adding to a group and pick the chat where you are an administrator.

Then everyone in the chat receives alerts at the same time, and nobody has to forward links by hand 👥

Open source and self-hosting

The project has public source code, so it can be deployed on your own server. If you are a developer who wants full control over the channel list, that route is worth considering.

For an ordinary viewer the hosted bot is enough: nothing to install.

What to keep in mind

The bot only reports the start of a broadcast. It does not show the stream inside Telegram and does not replace the platform apps. You watch the video where it airs.

If the bot stops sending messages, check that you have not blocked it and that the channel is still in the list (/list). Also look at your notification settings in Telegram itself: silent mode is easy to switch on by accident ⚠️

Add only channels you really care about. Dozens of alerts a day turn into noise, and you start ignoring them.

It suits viewers who follow several streamers and do not want ten tabs open. Groups of friends who agree to watch broadcasts together, and community owners who like sharing announcements 📺

Keeping alerts under control

Telegram lets you mute a specific chat. If the bot writes too often, keep sound on for your most important streamers only and check the rest with /online.

Every couple of months, go through /list and remove the people you no longer watch. A list of five live channels beats a list of fifty forgotten ones 🧹

In the evening, when many streams are on, /online gives a quick overview: you see who is live and can pick where to go.