Monitor and Restrict User commands as API endpoints
4 chat commands that would be great to have as API endpoints:
/monitor USERNAME - Start monitoring a user's messages.
/unmonitor USERNAME - Stop monitoring a user's messages.
/restrict USERNAME - Start restricting a user's messages
/unrestrict USERNAME - Stop restricting a user's messages
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These endpoints are Generally Available as of February 2026
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h3lbr3ght
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Helps get rig of bots using bots. A win win situation
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CaesarLP
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I really would like this too.
I'm currently working on a chatbot to monitor known Scammers and banning them outright is not a good option, since there are false positives. Restricting and/or monitoring these chatters would really help. -
OperatorTriz
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Agreed that these need to be added to the api, for 3rd party chat apps such as Chatty or even Streamlabs Chatbot's inbuilt chat.
Also, @V1nc3nt67
all IRC commands are being deprecated, as far as i know. The possibility of having these added to IRC are little to none.
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V1nc3nt67
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I think it would be nice to have to command available to the IRC command aswell