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# YouTube Chat Listener (Version 2) - Sustainable Live Chat Exploration
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This project aims to create a robust, quota-friendly, open-source, and Linux-compatible solution for monitoring YouTube Live Chat. Our initial research indicated a gRPC endpoint, but further investigation revealed this is not publicly available. Therefore, this project is now focused on a deeper exploration of alternative, sustainable methods to acquire live chat data without relying on continuous, quota-limited API polling or requesting quota increases.
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## Project Goal
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To identify and, if feasible, implement a sustainable, quota-friendly, compliant, open-source, and Linux-compatible method for receiving real-time YouTube Live Chat messages, processing them, and displaying them in the terminal with rich formatting. This goal explicitly rules out relying on YouTube Data API v3 quota increases.
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## Detailed Implementation Plan
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For a detailed breakdown of the revised research and exploration steps, please refer to the [DEVELOPMENT_PLAN.md](DEVELOPMENT_PLAN.md) file.
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## Current Status
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The `pytchat_listener.py` script has been successfully implemented and tested for basic chat fetching and display. Key features include:
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* **Full-width alternating backgrounds** for readability.
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* **Emoji coloring** for standard emojis.
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* **Persistent unique colors** for chatters across sessions.
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## Installation and Usage
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For detailed installation and usage instructions, please refer to the [INSTALLATION.md](INSTALLATION.md) file.
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## Dependencies
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* `pytchat`
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* `rich`
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* `google-auth-oauthlib` (for potential initial API calls or authentication research)
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* `google-api-python-client` (for potential initial API calls or authentication research)
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## Future Enhancements
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* Interactive message sending.
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* More advanced terminal UI (e.g., `prompt_toolkit` for input).
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* Web overlay integration.
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