Features

• ▸Auto-lurks every streamer on your watch list the moment they go live
• ▸Works with both Twitch and Kick
• ▸Built-in 7tv extension support — no manual setup
• ▸Lightweight desktop app (Electron) — no browser windows cluttering your taskbar
• ▸One-click start / stop for your whole lurk list
• ▸Ability to add chrome extentions

Screenshots

Changelog

1. v0.8.2-alpha2026-06-07

   Stream Lurker v0.8.2-alpha

   🔑 Logins fixed

   • Twitch / YouTube / Kick sign-in works again. A user-agent change introduced in 0.8.0 created a fingerprint mismatch that tripped Google/Twitch's "browser may not be secure" block. Login windows now use a consistent fingerprint, restoring sign-in across all platforms.
   • Kick login detection reworked so the login window reliably detects when you've signed in and closes on its own.

   🧩 Extensions

   • New "Recommended Extensions" catalog in the Adblock & Extensions tab — one-click install of uBlock Origin and 7TV straight from GitHub.
   • 7TV is now optional (no longer bundled/auto-installed) and auto-patched for Kick emote support on install.
   • After installing an extension, restart the app to finish loading it.

   💬 Chat

   • New "Open chat in browser" button on every stream — opens that channel's chat in your default browser, where you're already signed in, so you can chat while you lurk.

   🧹 Other

   • Rumble is now marked Coming Soon and disabled by default.
   • Removed the unreliable Kick live-follows scan (blocked by Kick's bot protection).
   • Activity console log lines are now selectable/copyable.
   • Renamed the "Clips & Points" sidebar tab to "Clips."

   📦 Upgrade

   Auto-update from 0.8.1-alpha via Settings → App Updates → Check for Updates.

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   Full Changelog: https://github.com/Kyogrim/stream-lurker/compare/v0.8.1-alpha...v0.8.2-alpha

2. v0.8.1-alpha2026-06-07

   Stream Lurker v0.8.1-alpha

   ✨ New

   • Auto-updater — A new App Updates card under System Settings lets you check for new releases, download them, and restart-to-install with one click. From this version onward, future updates won't require a manual reinstall.

   🐛 Fixes

   • Preempted streams now reopen — When a lower-priority stream is closed to make room for a higher-priority one, it will now correctly auto-open again once the higher-priority stream ends and a tab slot frees up. Previously, 24/7 streams would stay closed for the rest of the session.

   📦 Upgrade notes

   • This is the first auto-updateable release. Older builds (0.8.0-alpha and earlier) do not have the updater wired in, so you'll need to run the new installer once manually. After that, future versions update themselves.

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   Full Changelog: https://github.com/Kyogrim/stream-lurker/compare/v0.8.0-alpha...v0.8.1-alpha

3. v0.8.0-alpha2026-06-04

   Stream Lurker v0.8.0-alpha

   This release marks a massive upgrade to Stream Lurker, introducing interactive clips management, smart resource options, schedule scraping, and major UI layout improvements!

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   🎬 1. Replaced Drops with Twitch Clips Manager

   • Clips Tab Grid: A new sidebar navigation tab opens a responsive masonry layout showing the most popular and trending clips from your monitored streamers.
   • Custom Feed Filters: Filter feeds dynamically by Latest, Trending, or Popular.
   • Native Clip Viewer: The "Watch" button now opens clips inside a clean, native, ad-free Electron window instead of redirecting to your default system browser.
   • Secured Clip Downloads: Twitch's signed playback tokens are queried dynamically via GQL to guarantee full-speed .mp4 downloads instead of failing or outputting corrupted files.
   • Saved Library: Save your favorite clips to a persistent local library.
   • Auto-Points Claimer: The Twitch Channel Points Auto-Claimer has been relocated to the System Settings tab to keep the Clips view clean.

   🍃 2. "Ghost Mode" CPU/GPU Optimizer (Suspension Layer)

   • Decoder Suspension: Click the green "Ghost Icon" on any active stream cell (or use Ghost All in the toolbar) to suspend video rendering.
   • Compositor & Video Hiding: Sets the host <webview> to visibility: hidden (instructing Chromium to skip compositing the guest page layout) and injects a script to hide the guest <video> element (suspending the video decoding pipeline).
   • Earn Rewards in the Background: Toggling Ghost Mode keeps background JavaScript running at full speed. Your account remains active as a viewer, allowing you to claim Twitch drops and collect channel points with a significantly lighter rendering footprint.

   📅 3. Dynamic Rolling Calendar & Auto-Sync

   • Chronological Rolling Layout: The calendar automatically adjusts columns based on new Date().getDay(). The leftmost column is always labeled Today, followed by Tomorrow, and the subsequent 5 days in rolling order.
   • Visual Highlight Accents: "Today" features a glowing electric-green border, and "Tomorrow" is accented with a dashed violet layout.
   • Twitch Weekly Calendar Scraper: Auto-queries Twitch's internal GQL schedule queries on startup to auto-populate stream segments.
   • YouTube Waiting Room Protection: Scans YouTube's /live endpoint for upcomingEventData to correctly detect scheduled streams, adding them to the calendar instead of false-positive loading empty offline players.

   🎛️ 4. Dynamic Layout Switcher & DOM Rearrangement

   • Layout Switcher Toolbar: Cycle between Auto, 2x2 Grid, Theater Focus (1 large stream + 3 small vertical streams), and Picture-in-Picture (PiP) layouts.
   • Cell Shifting Controls: Arrow buttons in cell headers let you swap stream positions directly in the DOM on the fly, instantly changing which stream is featured in Focus/PiP layouts with zero page reloads or feed interruptions.
   • Individual Stream Reload: Refresh individual frozen or crashed streams with a dedicated reload button per card.

   ⚖️ 5. Drag-and-Drop Priority & Auto-Preemption

   • Drag-and-Drop Priority: Reorder streamers dynamically in the Manage Streamers tab using native HTML5 drag-and-drop.
   • Priority-Based Preemption: When connection limits are reached, the application evaluates streamer priorities. If a higher-priority stream goes online, the app automatically closes the lowest-priority active stream to make room for it.

   🛡️ 6. Kick.com Auto-Quality Self-Healer & 7TV Updater

   • Bottom Sheet Adaptation: Enhanced the quality selector click handlers to correctly query responsive bottom drawers used by Kick on small screen sizes.
   • Self-Healing Resolution Loop: Periodically reads video.videoHeight. If the player resets to high quality, it triggers a self-healing selection cycle to force the resolution back to your preferred quality (e.g., 160p).
   • 7TV Nightly Auto-Updater: Scans GitHub on startup for new nightly versions of the 7TV extension, downloads and extracts them, and automatically patches permissions for Kick.com emotes.

   🛠️ Bug Fixes & Stability

   • Fixed an Electron startup crash (TypeError: Session can only be received when app is ready) by delaying the will-download session handler registration.
   • Cleared all missing IPC handler errors (sync-platform-schedules and download-clip).
4. v0.5.0-alpha2026-06-02

   initial release.