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# YouTube Chat Listener (Version 2) - Sustainable Live Chat Exploration
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.
## Project Goal
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.
## Revised Research & Exploration Plan
For a detailed breakdown of the revised research and exploration steps, please refer to the [DEVELOPMENT_PLAN.md](DEVELOPMENT_PLAN.md) file.
## Dependencies
* `google-auth-oauthlib` (for potential initial API calls or authentication research)
* `google-api-python-client` (for potential initial API calls or authentication research)
* `rich` (for terminal display)
## Future Enhancements
* Interactive message sending.
* More advanced terminal UI (e.g., `prompt_toolkit` for input).
* Web overlay integration.