YouTubeCreaxor uses YouTube API Services.

Chat commands from YouTube

Creaxor is a platform where a creator’s audience supports them. The chat bridge lets a viewer do that from the live chat they are already watching, instead of switching to another tab.

A creator connects their own YouTube channel to their own Creaxor account by signing in with Google and approving a read-only permission. When they go live and press Attach, Creaxor reads the live chat of that broadcast and watches for commands such as !alert 25 lets go. A recognised command triggers an action on Creaxor and nowhere else — it spends the viewer’s own Creaxor balance, which they have to set a spending limit for in advance, to put their message on the creator’s stream.

Creators can connect a Kick channel too. Kick is a different service with its own permissions, and what we read and keep for it is set out in Section 15 of the Creaxor Privacy Policy. Everything on this page is about YouTube.

We read a channel’s live chat only while that creator has a broadcast attached. Detaching, ending the stream, or disconnecting the channel stops the read. We do not watch a channel to find out whether it has gone live — the creator pressing Attach is the only thing that starts it.

What Creaxor does not do

  • We never post to YouTube. Creaxor does not write chat messages, comments, replies, or anything else to YouTube. There is no write call anywhere in this integration.
  • We never modify a creator’s channel. We do not upload, edit, delete, or rate videos; we do not touch playlists, captions, subscriptions, or channel settings.
  • We request read-only access only. The connection asks for one permission and one only — https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly. We do not ask for any permission that would let us write to, or delete from, a creator’s channel.
  • We do not sell YouTube data or use it for ads. The data we read is used to run the command a viewer typed, and for nothing else.

What we keep, and how to get rid of it

  • For a connected creator we store their channel id, so that later reads and inbound chat messages can be matched to the right channel.
  • For a viewer who has linked their YouTube account, we store their channel id and a cached copy of their display name. The display name is a convenience and it does not stay: it is deleted within 30 days of the last time we saw it in chat.
  • A creator can disconnect their channel at any time from their Creaxor account, or by asking us once they can no longer sign in to it. That revokes our access token with Google and deletes the channel data we hold. A viewer can unlink their account from their Creaxor account too.
  • You can also revoke Creaxor’s access directly at Google security settings.
  • Removing your data from Creaxor doesn't remove anything from YouTube. Data held by YouTube has to be deleted at YouTube, in your Google account.

Terms and privacy

YouTube and the YouTube logo are trademarks of Google LLC. Creaxor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google LLC.