Guide & Comparison
Step by step: link your Kick channel, invite the bot, pick an announcement channel - and a formatted post appears in your Discord server automatically when you go live.
Plenty of Discord bots promise Kick alerts, but few explain what actually happens under the hood. This guide walks the full path once - including how the official Kick webhook reports the live start and what happens to the post when the stream ends.
You need a Kick account with your own channel, a Discord server where you may invite a bot, and a Streamboard account. You do not need your own bot or hosting: live detection, message building, and delivery all run in Streamboard. The Kick notifications page gives the overview, and the Discord page explains server and permission logic.
Connect your Kick account via OAuth in your profile. Streamboard then subscribes to the official Kick webhook event livestream.status.updated for your channel. Kick reports both the switch to live and the end of the stream directly to Streamboard. A regular polling pass only serves as a fallback for missed events and refreshes the viewer count during a running stream.
Connect your Discord account and invite the Streamboard bot to your server. Then check which channels it may write in: the bot posts only where you define a target, and it needs permission to send messages and embed links in that channel. For announcements, a dedicated channel separate from the live chat works best.
Create a notification target for your Kick channel, pick the destination channel and the template. Streamboard fills the placeholders for title, category, preview, and stream link when you go live. Optionally mention a role so the alert actually gets seen. One Kick channel can serve targets on several servers and in several channels - each with its own template.
Start a short Kick stream and check the post, preview, and link. When the stream ends, Streamboard finalizes the message - depending on your setting it is updated or cleaned up, so no stale live notice is left in the channel. If your community should also be reachable by push: set up Kick notifications via Telegram. Further answers are in the FAQ.
Streamboard subscribes to the official Kick webhook event livestream.status.updated for your linked channel. Kick reports online and offline changes directly to Streamboard, which builds the message and posts it to the Discord channels you configured. Polling runs only as a fallback.
No. Streamboard provides the bot and management. Invite the bot and configure the targets in the app.
Yes. One linked Kick channel can serve targets on several servers and in several channels, each with its own template - within the limits that apply to your account.
Streamboard detects the end of the stream and finalizes the message it sent - depending on your setting it is updated or cleaned up, so no stale live notice is left behind.
Yes. Both sources use the same targets and templates; only live detection differs - Twitch via EventSub, Kick via the official Kick webhook.
No. The chat bot works on Twitch only. For Kick, Streamboard covers live detection and notifications, not the Kick chat.
Link Kick, invite the bot, pick an announcement channel - start free.