When we browse Twitch without being logged in, we can not participate in chat but we can read chat. This seems to suggest that there is a way to connect to Twitch IRC without authenticating. Can this be done with the protocol or how could this be achieved?
justinfanxxx
where xxx is a random number
it does not have a password
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So you’d just skip the PASS command and simply do this?
NICK justinfan123
PS: Barry, you literally started typing a reply 4 seconds after I posted this question. I’m starting to think you are actually a secret Twitch AI project. 
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iirc I pass a pass BLANK
where blank is nothing.
But here is an example from a incognito
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Thank you, Barry!
One follow-up question: is it important to pick a number that isn’t currently in use? In other words, can the connection attempt fail if we choose a number that’s already in use? Or what’s the correct strategy to pick the numeric suffix?
I’m usually sat on justinfan9999 or justinfan9001 or justinfan1337
I’ve not had a connection fail from reusing the same ID.
Since a regular user can connect to chat multiple times anway
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He is… Don’t tell anybody though. It is top secret.
Thank you for understanding!
Just adding some additional information from my own tests in case anyone comes here looking for more details:
- the
USERcommand does not seem to be required for Twitch IRC; sending it seems to have no effect - anonymous connections don’t seem to work with an empty string for a password, but just using a random string seems to work
- there doesn’t seem to be a length requirement for the numeric nickname suffix, I’ve successfully tried with 20 numbers
To recap, this seems to be the syntax:
PASS <random_string>
NICK justinfan<random_number>
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