Get notified when your favorite Justin.tv or Twitch.tv channels go live

Martin Brinkmann
Mar 14, 2013
Updated • Mar 14, 2013
Firefox add-ons, Music and Video
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If you are a member of the live broadcasting and streaming websites Justin.tv or Twitch.tv, or just happen to be on those sites every now and then to watch some live streams, you have probably noticed that it is not really that easy to find out when channels go life. While you can subscribe to channels on Twitch for instance, called follow on the site, it only makes sure that you will receive an email when the channel goes life. If you do not pay attention to your email at that point in time, you may miss the beginning of the broadcast or all of it because of that.

Many broadcasters announce when they are going live on homepages or on Twitter, but that again requires you to visit those pages for information about that.

The Firefox extension Justin.tv Stream Notifications makes things a lot easier, at least for users of the Firefox web browser. It lets you subscribe to Justin.tv or Twitch.tv channels which in turn are from that moment on monitored by the extension. When a life channel is identified, you are automatically notified by the extension about it so that you can tune right in if you want.

twitch justin broadcast notifications

I could not really get the automatic detection to work which supposedly works if you are a registered member of either site. The extension pulls what you follow from your account information so that you are notified about channels going live that way.

What worked for me was to add the names of users that I wanted to be notified about in the add-on options. Here you can add the names of channel owners, or, the name of another user if you want to monitor that user's list of followed streams instead.

justin twitch notifications

The extension has a couple of additional options that you can manage from the settings. You can change the monitoring interval from every 30 seconds here, enable notifications for channels that go offline or disable the auto-detection of streams.

Maybe NoScript interfered with the automatic detection, but I can't really confirm or deny that at this point in time.

If you are using Firefox and follow specific channels on Twitch or Justin regularly, you will certainly find this add-on for the browser useful.

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Comments

  1. ilev said on July 27, 2012 at 5:42 pm
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    Beware of http://loginhelper.com/web-browser-maintenance/

    WOT warning.

    Warning: Keep out. IP/Hostname/Website created in order to perpetrate fraudolent activities against users. For any question, reference to this user: http://www.mywot.com/user/915771.

    Fraudolent activity detected: Phishing-Activity “

  2. Fine citizen said on July 27, 2012 at 10:17 pm
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    hehe, I saw 1100hp Ford GT with a cute blonde video :p

  3. ilev said on July 28, 2012 at 5:46 am
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    “the excellent Web Browser Maintenance” ?

    It is a malware site flagged by WOT.

    1. Martin Brinkmann said on July 28, 2012 at 9:10 am
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      Well since it is my site I’m pretty sure it is not a malware site.

      1. ilev said on July 28, 2012 at 9:59 am
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        Martin,

        Nevertheless WOT flags it.

        Maybe you should take action with WOT.

        Warning: Keep out. IP/Hostname/Website created in order to perpetrate fraudolent activities against users. For any question, reference to this user: http://www.mywot.com/user/915771.

        Fraudolent activity detected: Phishing-Activity ”

        http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/loginhelper.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=warn-viewsc

      2. ilev said on July 28, 2012 at 10:00 am
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        Martin,

        Nevertheless WOT flags it.

        Maybe you should take action with WOT.

        Warning: Keep out. IP/Hostname/Website created in order to perpetrate fraudolent activities against users. For any question, reference to this user: http://www.mywot.com/user/915771.

        Fraudolent activity detected: Phishing-Activity “

      3. Martin Brinkmann said on July 28, 2012 at 10:49 am
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        Those are untrue I have requested a review.

  4. James said on December 31, 2012 at 8:37 pm
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    Martin,

    I tried this out and while I appreciate the sleek and intuitive design, I think YouTube needs to pick a theme and stick with it. I love having distinct categories tucked away at different corners, so this looks a bit disorganized for me. Do you know of any Userscript I can use to revert my YouTube homepage back to classic view?

    Best,
    James

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