How to let your moderators clip your Twitch stream

Turn on Save clips from chat on your Twitch channel in SPREVA. From then on, a moderator who types !clip while you are live saves up to the last 60 seconds to your media library, exactly as if you had typed it. A viewer who types it gets nothing, not even a reply.

The choice is Who can clip, under Clips from chat on the channel's page in SPREVA. Twitch marks every message with the badges of the person who sent it, and SPREVA reads them each time, so someone you make a moderator tonight can clip tonight.

A command that makes an account do something in public is an invitation. Four things keep this one quiet:

• Silence for everyone else. A viewer typing !clip gets no answer, so there is nothing to make your account say over and over.
• One clip every 20 seconds. When two moderators react to the same moment, the first one saves it and the second is ignored.
• A daily limit. A channel saves at most a hundred clips a day: far more than a stream needs, far fewer than a script could ask for.
• Your chat only. In a shared chat with another streamer, a command typed in their channel does not clip yours.

Every clip is answered under the message that asked for it, from your own account:

That last one covers a full library or a connection that needs renewing. The chat is not told which, and you get the reason as a notification in SPREVA. If you would rather the chat saw nothing at all, turn off Reply in chat.

The words after !clip become the clip's name, and the opening line of the short you make from it, so they are worth a second of thought. !clip boss down first try is easier to find next week than twenty clips named after the stream.

Each clip also keeps who asked for it. Open one in your library and it says which moderator typed the command and how far into the stream that was.

Turn on Save clips from chat before your next stream and tell your moderators the word. Saving clips works on every plan, and every plan starts with a 7-day trial.