when you first start out as a stream one of the major challenges you're gonna face
is getting people to be active in your chat another one is getting people to join your
discord or follow you on twitter today i'm gonna show you guys how to set up streamlabs cloudbots
so you can keep people active and talking and having fun as well as get them to join you and
follow you on other social media platforms and grow your stream everywhere let's go
hey i'm Eljay with streamscheme.com i'm also a variety streamer over at twitch.tv/eljayem_
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for everything streaming related for you today i'm going to be covering a topic you guys have
been asking for for months now a deep dive into streamlabs cloudbots commands feature and how they
work and to answer all your questions that i know you're going to ask right off the bat yes this
works for console streamers yes this works for obs you don't need to have slobs open at the same time
all you need is a streamlabs account and to log into their browser and then follow this video
and you'll be good to go at the end of this video i'm going to cover one of the most sought after
commands something that you guys ask me every single stream how do they get set up and how
does it work so stay tuned for that there are time codes in the description and in the top
comments so if you want to you can use those to skip ahead to any particular section of this video
but before we get into it i want to say thank you to our sponsor our twitter just kidding of course
we're not sponsored this time but i wanted to shout out our twitter because we're about to
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description go check it out it'll really help us so streamlabs cloudbot like a lot of chatbots have
commands but what are commands at the end of the day commands are pretty easy to understand you'll
most likely see them in the form of an exclamation mark followed by a word or phrase that'll allow
the bot to spit back a predetermined message by you or by the bot for example one of the commands
we're setting up today that you guys have asked me how i use on my stream is the follow age command
this command allows someone to type exclamation mark follow age without any spaces and it will
spit back how long they've been following the stream for people really value the follow age
command mainly because if people have been following for a long time they like to wear
it as a badge of honor and show off they've been following you for months or years even
so i really recommend setting this up as soon as you possibly can and i'm going to show you exactly
how to do that later in this video but as i said a command is triggered manually in chat by a user
unlike another feature that can easily be confused a timer now a timer is a very powerful engagement
tool i cover in another video so if you want to check that out it's in the description or in the
cards but that's not to say that commands aren't also a powerful engagement tool and a powerful
information tool as well i use them all the time to push people to my social medias to my discord
or just to answer questions i'm being asked a lot i'm going to show you so many different
ways you can set these up today but i also have to quickly answer some questions i always get
asked in the comments of my cloudbot video how will a new viewer know my commands so that they
can use them well it's pretty straightforward you put the crucial ones on the end of your
title exclamation mark discord at the very end of your title so when someone joins they see
the title and they know to use that command in chat the other thing you can do is put them in
your panels that's what i've done i put all of mine in my panel so people can see them there
and the other thing is most people are kind of like lemmings they just follow along
if they see other people typing exclamation mark follow age or exclamation mark heist or whatever
these other commands are they'll kind of just get the idea and follow along if they get confused
they can ask and you can explain it or another chatter can explain it as well okay with all
that out of the way i think we should be good to get into the actual activation and set up
for cloudbot so you can get into your commands the first thing we're gonna need to do is get
streamlabs cloudbot setup as a mod in your chat it's totally safe have no fears also throwing it
out there i know you're going to ask no you do not need to have any kind of cloud bot or stream labs
prime this is totally free get yourself logged in and once you've done that you're going to head
over to the cloud bot section and you're going to click on this little switch here to turn it on if
you have any issues for example maybe it doesn't switch over or it doesn't look like it's turned on
refresh your browser it's most likely a caching issue and it has turned on but for some reason
it's just not popping up next step you'll want to head over to your twitch channel and type slash
mod space stream labs this will set the bot as a moderator and you'll be good to go seriously
that's all it takes congratulations your bot is now active and you can start playing with commands
once you have all that turned on you've actually activated a bunch of default commands as well so
what we're going to do is when i head over to the command section i'm going to click default
in this section you can see a lot of commands and most of them relate to different modules that come
with cloudbot if you want to see all the other modules and how they work i have a full video
on the channel but essentially if you look at link protection here you'll see permissions and
an edit button this is one of the modules you turn on the modules tab it allows moderators to
type exclamation mark permit which is a command and a username to let that person post a link
in your chat now you can take a look through and turn off anything you don't want to use
my absolute favorite command in this entire thing are the quotes commands my chat love catching me
out of context and asking moderators to type exclamation mark add quote and whatever i said
so they can use it against me later for example i have my computer here so if i type exclamation
mark quote and hit enter it'll spit back a random quote or i can type xmh mark quote space and a
number and it will spit back the exact number so if i were to type exclamation mark quote space 11
and hit enter it will spit back girls are temporary animate it
you know what you get the idea let's keep moving if you want to see all your quotes that
a moderator adds you can also go to the quote list here so take a look through those default commands
you'll see there's a description next to them so you'll be able to figure out exactly what every
single one does i still need to show you how to set up a custom command and your follow age
command which is really simple and easy but first i'm gonna throw it out there if this video helps
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coming up at the end of the video so stay tuned so let's set up that follow age command using one
of the cloudbot default commands that's right cloudbot is actually kind enough to give you a
whole heap of templates you can just turn on and off what i want you to do is i want you to go to
your cloudbot command section and i want you to click add a command click template and you'll get
a big list of templates that are included for you for example exclamation mark lurk is for people to
let you know they're going to just watch and not chat or exclamation mark uptime shows people how
long you've been live for take a look through these they're all pretty important to set up
but let's click exclamation mark follow age for now now cloudbot will automatically fill out the
command and the response itself and you don't have to do anything other than hit confirm but
to peel back the curtain a bit if you see at the start it uses these little brackets
the bot reads those brackets and says i need to put the username of the person who
used the command here and then the words has been following appear normally without any brackets
and the next section has brackets again and the bot reads this as i need to put the channel name
here the final brackets tell the bot to write how long the user has been following the channel
for which it knows because that is all saved in the twitch api next step is to check your reply
rules now these are crucial do you want the bot to whisper the person or do you want to reply and
chat that is just done with this little drop down here and then the next step is permissions now who
do you want to be able to use these commands you can set them as regulars subscribers moderators or
just the streamer i have my follow age command set that anyone can use it but there are larger chats
who are very very very fast and if it was set up that anyone could it would get very spammy very
quickly so maybe setting this as a moderator so that a mod can type exclamation mark follow age
space and one of the users in chat's name and it'll actually spit out how long that
user has been following and you're good to go next step i want you to click the advanced tab
you want to change your cooldowns global means the time between when someone else can use the command
again so if person a uses the command then person b can't use it for say 30 seconds whereas a user
cooldown is an individual's cooldown so if user a uses a command then they can't use it again for 30
seconds whereas user b can use it again instantly you can do some combinations here so for example
you can set an individual cooldown of 60 seconds so use a can use a command and then can't use it
again for 60 seconds whereas the global command could be set to 10 seconds so user b has to wait
10 seconds after user a but user a has to wait 60 seconds again the cost section are if you want to
make people have to spend their cloudbot loyalty points which is something i cover in my other
video as well so for now we're going to ignore this aliases are different codes that can trigger
the same command for example i could add an alias here for exclamation mark follow and
that'll do the exact same thing as exclamation mark follow age but it just gives people more
options congratulations you have your template command set up for follow age and you can pretty
much be good to go now but we also need to teach you how to set up custom commands for example how
do we push someone from our twitch stream all the way over to our discord or to our twitter or our
facebook or wherever else you want them to go this is seriously one of the best ways to push people
off your stream into your social media platform at the end of a stream you say hey guys if you want
to you can join our discord it's a great place type exclamation mark discord in chat and they
can click a link so let's get that set up so let's head back to our cloudbot command section and
click add a command now ignore the templates for this one we aren't going to be using those at all
for this we need a command code we want to push people to join our discord so we're going to type
exclamation mark discord as our command code our response is going to be a little bit about
our server and an invite link to the server i want to reply in chat so that everyone sees
it meaning more people can click and join our discord rather than having to have everyone type
exclamation mark discord and be whispered and don't forget your advanced settings seriously
if you ever forget your advanced settings you're going to be in for a world of hurt you do not want
to forget your advanced settings i forgot them once for a command and told everyone to type in
exclamation mark i think twitter was it and i had 200 people type twitter at once and the bot died
so when i set a global cooldown of 15 seconds and that will also incorporate the user cooldown so
let's add 30 seconds there so the same person can't post it over and over again now i could
set an alias up here if i wanted to such as exclamation mark server or exclamation mark
community but exclamation mark discord tends to be the most common way of doing it and i don't
think there's any need hit save and you're all good to go now all you have to do if you want to
set up a one for twitter is the exact same process but swap out the response for your twitter links
and your information about your twitter the final step and one of the best engagement tools i think
i've covered a lot is how to set up your question of the day command you guys have asked me about
this constantly if you want to use an exclamation mark question of the day command all you have to
do is the same system that i showed you how to set up discord but rather than putting in your
discord information you type in exclamation mark qotd and then in the spitback it's going to be a
question of the day now there is no automatic way to change this over that i know of i go and find
question of the days and i put them in manually every single day before i stream essentially the
way this works is someone joins the stream they see exclamation mark qotd or heck i even shout
out hey guys we do have a question of the day and someone types it and then everyone in chat
starts talking about a topic that i've pre-planned that i think will be fun for them to engage with
it's a great way to make new community members as well because anyone who answers it it gives you a
chance to talk to them and find out a bit more about them and if people feel heard and engaged
they'll come back to your stream in a heartbeat with all that said and done you are now an expert
at using cloudbot commands i hope you enjoyed this video feel free to check out our other content
and also yes i haven't mentioned the fact that i'm in a completely different setup to normal
i hope you like it it'll allow me to produce a lot more content for you as well as sitting in
the air conditioning rather than 32 degrees a summer australian heat see you guys next week