What’s new in Bloopbot
New features and changes to Bloopbot, newest first, each with the guide that shows you how to use it.
A guide to marking moments in your VOD
The Stream marker step drops a marker in your VOD when a flow runs, so you can find that moment again in Twitch’s highlight editor after the stream. Its optional Note can name who or what it was, such as the raider.
Mark a moment for your highlights is a new walkthrough: bookmark every raid of ten or more viewers, then shout out the raider.
Bring your commands over from Nightbot or StreamElements
Bloopbot can read your channel’s public command list on Nightbot or StreamElements and turn each command into its own flow. You don’t sign in to the old bot, and nothing changes there.
- Open it from step 2 of the Setup guide, or from Flows → + New flow → From another bot.
- Each row shows who could use the command, its cooldown and its reply as Bloopbot will send it.
- Some commands can arrive as Bloopbot’s own shoutout, clip, quote or giveaway entry, or keep your reply. You choose before you bring them over.
- Tick Turn on now for the commands you want answering chat straight away. Everything else arrives paused.
Coming from Nightbot and Coming from StreamElements show every step.
Share flows with other streamers, and install theirs
- List your flows, with the alert designs, widgets and files they use, in the marketplace. Everything listed is reviewed first, and it always installs paused. List your flows in the marketplace shows how.
- Flows → Explore packs has a Community group of bundles other streamers listed, with a Featured shelf at the top. See Install from the Community group.
- Export bundle on the Flows page puts several flows, and everything they need, in one file. See Export several flows as one bundle.
Sign in with email when Twitch can’t
Add a backup sign-in email under Account, confirm it, and you can still open your dashboard if you ever can’t sign in with Twitch. It doesn’t create a new account: it signs you in to the one you already have.
Keep a backup way to sign in walks through it.
A new sidebar: Build, Run and Manage
The sidebar is now a narrow strip of buttons with a panel of pages beside it. Build holds Flows and Widgets, Run holds what you use during a stream, and Manage holds what you set once or check afterwards.
The sidebar lists where every page lives.
Pages offer the flows that feed them
When no flow is on to drive a page, the page says so and offers to install the flows it needs, paused, for you to switch on.
- Loyalty offers Install points commands — see Give viewers a way to check points.
- Regulars offers Install !regulars commands — see Recognise regular viewers.
- Giveaways offers Install giveaway flows — see Let chat enter.
- An overlay with an alert layer offers Install alert flows — see Add an alert to an overlay.
New guides for your bot account, quotes, schedule and more
- Use your own bot account
- Keep a quote book
- Work with your stream schedule
- Start a flow from a URL, or call one
- React to polls, predictions and hype trains
- Share the work with mods and editors
- Coming from Streamer.bot, which maps actions, triggers, sub-actions and variables, and says what stays on your PC.
- Coming from Fossabot, which maps commands, timers, keywords, counters and moderation onto flows and filters.
Tell how a poll or prediction ended
With When it set to Ends, the Twitch poll changes and Twitch prediction changes triggers now have an Outcome field. A prediction flow can tell Resolved (winner paid out) from Cancelled (points refunded), so a cancelled prediction never claims a winner.
Choose the moment lists every choice.
The link filter sees through disguised links
The link filter now catches a link written to slip past it: spaced or spelled out (example dot com), in look-alike or fancy letters, or broken up with invisible characters. The blacklist sees through the same disguises.
Whatever a filter does — warn, delete or time out — the message it caught is now always deleted. A first-offence warning only spares the viewer the timeout. See Add a helper flow.
Alerts live on your overlays
Add an alert from Add in any overlay’s editor: follow, sub, resub, gift sub, cheer, raid, redemption or custom.
- The first time you add a type, Bloopbot makes its design and a flow that plays it.
- A design belongs to your channel, so one design can show on as many overlays as you like.
- Every alert waits its turn in one queue, so nothing overlaps.
Show alerts on stream covers designs, testing, media and the live queue.
A !deaths counter and a hello for first-time chatters
- The Counter templates in the Starter pack are now
!deathsfor anyone and!deaths +for mods. See Start from the Counter templates. - Welcome new chatters greets each viewer once, after their first line in chat, and stays quiet after that. See Welcome first-time chatters.
Giveaways get their own page and a panel for OBS
A giveaway is now a record with its own rules: the prize, the word that enters it, how many winners there are, and how a winner claims it. Set it up once and open it when you are ready.
The Giveaway widget puts it on stream: the prize, the keyword, how many entries are in, the last few people who entered, and the draw itself. Run a giveaway in chat goes from the rules to the winner.
Let a failed attempt try again
The Cooldown step has a Reset connection. Wire the error branch of a step that can fail into it, and a viewer whose attempt went wrong can try again straight away instead of waiting out the cooldown.
Let a failed attempt try again shows how.
Pin, badge or hide a chat message from a flow
A flow can now pin a message in your on-stream chat box, give it a badge such as Rank $(rank), or hide it. Make your chat box react to chat shows each one.
Build one overlay from several pieces
An overlay is now made of layers: a chat box, a goal bar and a counter can sit on one overlay, each where you put it. Arrange your overlay shows how.
Pick your real Twitch rewards
A channel points flow’s Reward field lists the rewards your channel has, with what each one costs, so you pick instead of typing a name. A reward renamed on Twitch shows as (not on Twitch now) until you pick the new one.
Pick the reward has the details.
Ask the AI judge inside a flow
AI: yes or no and AI: route by meaning are two new condition nodes: ask a plain-English question about a chat message, and branch a flow on the answer instead of hard-coding rules. Not available on every channel yet — check Your plan from the Flows page.
Ask the AI judge in a flow shows both nodes.
React to polls, predictions and hype trains
Bloopbot can now announce a poll winner, say who won a prediction and how many points were in play, and cheer each hype train level — install the ready-made reactions, or start a poll or prediction from a flow and lock or settle it later. Test fire plays a realistic made-up event so you can check a reaction before it runs for real.
React to polls, predictions and hype trains has the details.
Move a goal bar or on-screen counter from a flow
A goal bar or a counter widget can now follow a variable your flows keep, so a chat command, a bits cheer or a raid can move the number on screen. The On-screen numbers pack sets one up in a click.
Move a goal bar or counter from a flow shows how.
Build any command or behaviour as a flow
Commands, alerts and timers are now built as flows: connect a trigger, an optional condition and an action on a canvas, then use Test fire to check it before it goes live.
Build a flow on the canvas explains the three parts, and Create your first chat command builds one from the Simple command template.
Speak in chat under your own bot account
Link a second Twitch account under Connections → Bot account, and every chat reply, announcement and moderation action from your flows comes from that name instead of the shared bot. Your flows, commands and widgets stay exactly as they are; only the name in chat changes.
Use your own bot account walks through linking it.