Aar318's Stream Notifier by Aar318

🔔 Aar318's Stream Notifier: Live Alerts for Twitch and Kick

Keep track of your favorite Twitch and Kick streamers from any browser tab. Stream Notifier adds a draggable floating button that opens a responsive dashboard showing who is live, along with thumbnails, viewer counts, favorites, quick previews, and direct links to each stream.

🚀 Getting Started

1. Install the extension and pin it from your extension menu for easy access.
2. Open the Streamers panel and add a Twitch or Kick channel, or use + This Page while visiting a supported channel.
3. Mark important creators as favorites and allow notifications when prompted.
4. Leave the extension running—status checks and live alerts continue automatically in the background.

✨ New Features (v3.42.0.5)

• Improvement: Added a Settings option to hide the Twitch and Kick import buttons in the main panel. This setting is included in full backups.
• New Feature: Import followed Twitch or Kick channels, review the detected list, and choose which channels to add. Only channels currently loaded on the Following page can be detected.
• Bug Fix: The import review now fits narrow screens.
• Bug Fix: The Streamers panel now reopens normally after an extension update.
• Bug Fix: Clicking the toolbar button while a page is loading no longer opens an extra Twitch tab.
• Improvement: Site access is requested only for the streaming site currently open.
• Bug Fix: The Streamers button and position lock return after site access is granted or the extension is updated.

⭐ Key Features

• Scoped Backups: Profile backup/import changes one selected profile; Settings backup/import handles all profiles and global preferences, including toolbar behavior, saved position, polling interval, and dismissed suggestions.
• Responsive Twitch Navigation: The Streamers button stays beside Browse and its adjacent menu, reducing width and hiding its TV icon in smaller windows.
• Stream Titles: Live cards show available titles with hover/focus scrolling. Single-streamer alerts include the full available title, subject to system notification display limits.
• Complete Toolbar Panel: Access profiles, channels, sessions, exclusions, and settings from the extension icon. Pages that cannot host the panel open Twitch to display it.
• Twitch and Kick Tracking: Monitor individual creators on either platform, or track the same creator on both platforms from one entry.
• Session Dashboard: Review newly live, recently ended, longest-live, rising-viewer, and favorite activity per profile. Session history is local, bounded, manually clearable, and optionally cleared on a schedule.
• Favorite-First Checks: Favorites are checked immediately when selected, every 30 seconds on a coordinated priority cycle, and first during complete status checks.
• Live Desktop Alerts: Receive click-to-open notifications when a tracked streamer goes live, with cooldowns, duplicate prevention, grouped summaries for busy startup checks, and optional favorite alert sounds.
• Flexible Snooze Options: Pause notifications for preset or custom durations, indefinitely, or through a recurring quiet-hours schedule with an optional favorite exception.
• Streamer Management: Add channels manually, detect creators from supported pages, import from Twitch Following, search tracked channels, and use clickable close-match suggestions when a name is mistyped.
• Profiles and Favorites: Create separate profiles such as Gaming, Work, or Late Night, then pin favorites to the top of each profile.
• Live Cards and Previews: View status dots, thumbnails, viewer counts, recent alert details, direct stream links, inline previews, and compact audio controls.
• Private Insights Dashboard: Reveal Stats for Nerds from Settings to view local activity totals, performance records, streaks, platform breakdowns, and a 14-day chart.
• Responsive Dashboard: Choose Full, Compact, or Mini density, filter by platform, hide offline channels, and retain your place during background refreshes.
• Mobile-Friendly Layout: Phone-width screens use a safe-area-aware bottom drawer, touch-friendly controls, stable scrolling, short-lived NEW badges, and responsive card grids.
• Custom Appearance and Placement: Includes dark mode, seasonal themes, custom colors, adjustable opacity, Simple UI, draggable positioning, an optional attached lock, and collision avoidance with YouTube Notifier when both off-site controls are enabled.
• Site Exclusions: Hide the global overlay on selected domains, paths, or wildcard URL patterns while continuing to use it elsewhere.
• Backup and Recovery: Import/export configurations, create manual backups, or use deduplicated automatic backups with configurable retention and empty-profile recovery.
• Performance for Large Lists: Progressive row creation, bounded status history, lazy thumbnails, and cleanup of detached controls keep long-running tabs responsive.
• Toolbar Shortcuts: Use the extension-icon menu to open the panel, check immediately, add or remove the current channel, manage notification sleep, or open support links.

🔐 Permissions & Privacy

• Storage: Saves streamer lists, profiles, exclusions, notification history, appearance settings, quiet hours, session data, private statistics, and optional backups locally.
• Notifications: Displays system alerts when tracked streamers go live.
• Scripting: Restores the packaged page controls on already-open, permitted pages after updates or site-access grants.
• Context Menus: Adds extension-icon shortcuts for panel access, status checks, current-channel management, notification sleep, and support links.
• Host Permissions: Allows the optional floating dashboard to appear on browser pages and permits public live-status requests to Twitch and Kick. Background requests are restricted to approved Twitch and Kick endpoints.
• Privacy: Streamer data, history, backups, sessions, and preferences remain in local browser storage. No analytics or external tracking service is used.
• Privacy policy: https://gist.github.com/aar318/9d4fc167a12546f162bcef3b91322aad

ℹ Notes

• Twitch or Kick login is not required for live-status checks.
• Stream availability, previews, and viewer information depend on data exposed by Twitch and Kick.
• No account authentication, analytics, or remote tracking is used.
• Automatic page controls require persistent site access. If access is withheld, click the extension icon and approve the domain request once per browser profile. Permission cannot be granted automatically by the extension.