# Idea for a twitch chat script **URL:** \ **Category:** API\ **Created:** [December 3, 2018, 2:34am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/idea-for-a-twitch-chat-script/18908 "2018-12-03T02:34:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Denialz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@Denialz](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Denialz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 2:34am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/idea-for-a-twitch-chat-script/18908/1 "2018-12-03T02:34:13Z")
I just started programming and was thinking of a project to test my skills. I thought I could write a script to count how many times a given emote was used during a stream. Being a beginner, I’m not sure whether this is possible through Twitch’s API or not, cause I didn’t find anything about it on the docs, and I’m kinda clueless orverall. Any help would be of interest! ---
**Author:** ![3ventic](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/3ventic/32/298_2.png) [@3ventic](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/3ventic)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/idea-for-a-twitch-chat-script/18908/2 "2018-12-03T02:49:24Z")
Twitch chat API is largely IRC-compatible. Start here: [https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/irc/](https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/irc/) Emotes are sent in the message tags: [https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/irc/tags/#privmsg-twitch-tags](https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/irc/tags/#privmsg-twitch-tags) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://d2opxh93rbxzdn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 2:49am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/idea-for-a-twitch-chat-script/18908/3 "2019-01-02T02:49:28Z")
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