Your first import
Let's pull in a Twitch VOD and see what the app does with it. Any past broadcast URL works — your own, or a streamer you watch.
- Open Stream Chat Summary
- Click Import → Twitch VOD (Twitch URL)
- Paste a VOD URL like
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1234567890 - Leave the defaults as they are and click Import
A progress bar runs along the top of the window while chat is downloaded from Twitch, parsed, and analysed. For most VODs this takes anywhere from a few seconds to a couple of minutes depending on length and chat volume.
What you'll see when it finishes
The main window splits into two halves. The left is the chat summary — counts, the chatter list, and per-chatter detail. The right is the chat overview — charts, highlights, channel info, and category breakdowns.
A strip of header stats updates immediately:
- Messages — total messages in the log
- Peak Minute — the busiest single minute
- Unique Chatters — how many distinct usernames participated
- Duration — how long the stream ran, first message to last
The right-hand panel offers a tab for each view:
- Overview — message category breakdown (questions, mentions, emote-only…)
- Chatter Share — top chatters as a bar chart
- Chat Velocity — messages-per-minute timeline
- Emote Usage — most-used emotes, sized by frequency
- Top Words — common words as a cloud
- Mention Network — who mentioned who
- Highlights — auto-detected peak-activity moments (if any)
- Channel Details — avatar, followers, account age, last broadcast (if a streamer was identified)
Every chart and grid is interactive. Click a chatter on the left to pin them in the Chatter Details view, where you can scrub through their messages, duplicates, questions, and engagement timeline.
What's next
That's the basic loop. From here:
- Tour the main window in detail
- Understand how highlights are detected
- Learn the engagement tier system
- Try capturing a live stream instead of a VOD
- Export your findings for Discord, a spreadsheet, or another tool