Display obs dock for YouTube live chat on stream

[LoonyGeekFun]

I'm really liking the dock for YouTube live in that it shows chat for the live upcoming video straight away.

How can I display the contents of this dock on stream? I tried window capture but it is not listed.

I could do display capture and crop but that requires me to have the dock in the same place every time and will show anything over the top of the dock

It seems to me fundamental for streaming to be able to show the chat, I would prefer not to use third-party websites or having to update the live chat URL every time for a browser source

How can I do it with native OBS?, there must be a way, it shows the chat straight away so how can I display that on stream?

 

[JonathanC09]

I know you don't want to use third-party websites, but the streamlabs chat box seems to me to be very convenient, you sign up, you get the unique URL and it's completely free.

 

[PaiSand]

Not sure if it works for each and every stream but you can copy the link of the chat, add it on a browser source and that's it.
You can also edit the css to remove what you don't want to see in screen and make the background transparent or with opacity.
An example will be:

body { background-color: transparent !important; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden; }

yt-live-chat-renderer {background-color: transparent !important}
yt-live-chat-header-renderer {display: none}
yt-live-chat-restricted-participation-renderer {display: none}
yt-live-chat-ticker-renderer {display: none}

In this one you have transparent background and hiding the header and footer.

Of course, if with each stream the URL changes then you need to edit the URL on the browser source.

 

[LoonyGeekFun]

Thanks for your replies but they are not the answers to my question

My question is

How can I display the chat without going to a third-party website or using browser source that requires an updated URL every time?

Obs already has an option to show the chat. surely there an option to add it as an overlay to a live stream.

How do I do that?