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Twitch Lurker

by mikeyaworski

v3.0.7 Updated Feb 21, 2026 229KiB
CWS
10K
Users
★ 4.25
61 reviews
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of 207.1K
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Description

Recent Update: There may be some bugs in the most recent update (v3.0.0) because there was a big overhaul to migrate to manifest v3. A lot of functionality changed with browser extensions, so be patient while bugs get fixed. Support your favorite Twitch streamers by automatically lurking in their stream when they go live. Twitch Lurker allows you to build a list of favorites based on who you follow and open up muted tabs of their stream as soon as they go live. IMPORTANT: You must have tabs already open with the Twitch player running in order for you to count as a viewer in their viewer count. If the extension loads a new tab with a stream, it won't count you as a viewer until you open the tab and load the player yourself. *** How to use the extension: 1) Download/Install from the store or sideload it in your browser 2) Login with OAuth so we can pull your follow list (don't worry, we don't collect any of your info) 3) Click the stars next to channels in your following list to mark them as Favorites 4) Order your Favorites list to your liking (the higher in the list, the higher their priority over other Favorites) 5) Open two tabs with live streams 6) You are now supporting your favorite content creators and gaining free channel points! If you would like to support this extension feel free to hit the "buy me a coffee" button in the extension or drop me Twitch Prime sub @ twitch.tv/ErianasVow . It'd help me a lot and all proceeds go to further development of the extension! *** If you'd like to view or contribute to the source code: https://github.com/mikeyaworski/Twitch-Lurker
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Reviews (11 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-25
Erik Murphy (Taichi)

This used to be a great tool for catching up on my favorite streamers, but lately it stopped working. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, turning it off and on again, but I can't find any solution to fix it. Very disappointed that it broke and there's no feedback about what's going on or how to get it working again. Won't be using this app again.

★☆☆☆☆2024-03-26
Ghazi N

doesnt work for me

★☆☆☆☆2024-03-22
Johnathan G

Does not stay signed in to Twitch, it signs you back out and states to sign in again? It happens about 10-15mins after you sign it in

★★☆☆☆2025-05-28
Officer Mills

2 stars because it worked for one full day before failing. No longer stays logged in. Nothing was changed in browser settings it just started automatically logging the extension out of Twitch(Chrome browser/Twitch still logged in). You log into Twitch thru the extension and before you can can blink it's automatically logged out.

★★☆☆☆2023-12-09
max rebirth

Normally a phenomenal app, however... I have to question the choice to add... kick? The name of the app is Twitch lurker, I don't support nor condone Kick, and had I had known this was going to be added; I would have spoken up sooner... its a notorious platform with sexual abuse, drugs and gambling. I'm sure its just a volley for some nerd to be like "WELL TECHNICALLY" cause of the YouTube support; but the platforms work together. Aside from the that... the recent permissions has broken or made things not work as they normally would. e.g. sometimes I have to open things manually even after granting permission. Polling is set to 3m; and I've been using this for as long as I can remember. I'll update the review once the app functions as proper, but I strongly recommend making kick its own application, please don't just jumble other services into an application that was intended for a certain audience. (if you aren't familiar with the politics of Twitch, you' should understand that the two platforms do NOT get along together). Normally on Twitch I have given this platform raving reviews and have had MANY users reflect their love for this app, but if kick remains to be supported I will have to pull my support; in addition to removing it from my browser.

★★★☆☆2026-02-17
Rik67

Latest version keeps on crashing. You constantly have to reload it in the browser's extensions settings.

★★★☆☆2025-12-29
Aldo Cruz

In the last couple of months it stopped showing Kick channels that I already had added manually and that showed up before in the list

★★★☆☆2025-12-04
Nathaniel Whiting

I use this just to get updates on when my favourite streamers go live (cause they rarely do), but it has a frustrating issue where, if I close the tab, it just reopens the tab on the same stream five minutes later Unsure if this is intended to be a feature or not, but some way to disable it would be great :)

★★★☆☆2025-04-19
椒鹽杏鮑菇

Sometimes it fails to work properly.

★★★☆☆2024-05-01
Peter

Works properly, although the tab opens on the wrong computer for me. It would be a lot more helpful to select which system to have the tab open - if possible.

★★★☆☆2022-09-08
trigirl48

Does what it says which is great, but if I, for example, have 3 tabs open & close 1 because I'm just not feeling that stream, the extension will reopen the tab after a few minutes. It then becomes a fight to keep the tab closed.

Permissions (7)

Permissions

alarms Can schedule periodic background tasks contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu identity Can use your Google account identity notifications Can show desktop notifications scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser unlimitedStorage

Details

Version 3.0.7
Updated Feb 21, 2026
Size 229KiB
First Seen Mar 25, 2026