Add a widget to OBS

1. Choose your widget

Open Widgets → New widget. Pick a type, select a starting design and give it a name you will recognise. The name is for finding the widget in your dashboard.

2. Configure and preview

1. Press Create widget, then adjust the content and design in its editor.
2. For a counter or live label, choose the variable or data field it should display.
3. Use the preview to check text length, size and placement. Save your changes.
4. Copy the widget’s URL from its OBS section or the widget list.

3. Add the Browser Source

1. In OBS, open the scene that should show the widget.
2. Add a Browser Source in Sources and give it a clear name.
3. Paste the copied widget URL into the URL field. Hosted widgets use a web URL, so leave Local file off.
4. Set Width to 1920 and Height to 1080, then position the source in your scene.
5. Keep the scene visible while checking the widget. Save another design change in Bloopbot and confirm it appears in OBS.

Move a goal bar or counter from a flow

A goal bar set to Your own number, and a label that shows $(var.deaths), both follow a variable. A flow never talks to the widget: it changes the variable with Set variable, and every widget watching that variable updates on its own. The quickest start is a pack from Flows → + New flow.

1. Install the pack and let the install prompt create its number variables.
2. Create the widget and point it at the same variable name. The Goal bar’s Your own number design already follows goal with a target of 100, and the Label’s counter design already shows $(var.deaths).
3. Type the command in chat, or use Test fire on the flow, and watch the widget move.
4. To count something else — bits, follows, raids — open one of the installed flows, swap its trigger, and set how much Set variable adds.

Using a Twitch-goal bar or your own widget? Those listen for Twitch goal events, not a variable. Add the Show a goal action (under Overlay) to a flow: give it where the goal is now, such as $(var.goal), and what it is aiming for. It puts the goal on every widget that shows Twitch goals, remembers it for a widget that connects later, and steps aside while a real Twitch goal is running. The Goal bar pack includes a flow that does this whenever goal changes; use Finish the goal in the same action to take it down.

The Event stack widget shows polls, predictions, hype trains and ad breaks the same way — and Twitch has no way to create any of those from outside its own dashboard either. Four more actions under Overlay stage one without anything really running: Show a poll, Show a prediction, Show a hype train and Show an ad break. Each works like Show a goal — the numbers come from the flow (a poll’s choices and vote counts, a prediction’s outcomes and points, a hype train’s level and progress), and the action steps aside while a real one of that kind is running on your channel.

If you cannot see anything

• A transparent label with no content may look empty. Check its text and selected variable first.
• An alert box or event stack may be idle until an event arrives. Use the matching test in its editor where available.
• Make sure the source is visible and is above any full-screen capture that would cover it.
• If hosted widgets are unavailable, this server’s operator needs to enable them.