The Social notifications module
The module automatically posts to a Discord channel what happens elsewhere: a live starting, a video going out, a game being given away. Each source is a “feed” configured on its own.
Updated 12 September 2026
What the module follows
- Twitch: an alert when a live starts, with the title and the game.
- YouTube: an alert when a video is published or a live starts.
- RSS: any site publishing a feed — a blog, a forum, a game’s release notes. It is the way out when the platform you want is not on the list.
- Game deals: games given away or heavily discounted on Epic Games and Steam. It is the feed that generates the most activity on a gaming server, because it carries useful, time-limited information.
The free plan allows one feed per platform. Unlimited feeds are among the module’s premium features.
Setting up a feed
- Choose the platform and name the channel to follow.
- Choose the Discord channel. A dedicated one beats general chat: alerts stay findable, and people who do not care can mute it.
- Choose the mention. A self-service notification role is far better than
@everyone: only those who asked are pinged, and nobody mutes the whole server. - Customise the embed if your plan allows: a message that looks like your server lands better than a bare link.
What the module cannot follow
Not every platform exposes its posts the same way. TikTok and Instagram provide no public feed that can be used reliably: automatic tracking would be either incomplete or built on a method that breaks the first time they change their site.
We would rather say so than ship a feature that works for a month. For those networks, posting stays manual — and the Messages module lets you format it properly.
The recurring mistakes
- Pinging
@everyoneon every live. Two weeks later, half the server has muted everything, including what mattered. - Posting in general chat. The alert cuts conversations and vanishes immediately.
- Not checking channel permissions. The bot needs to post AND embed links; without the second, the alert goes out with no preview.
Key points
- One feed per platform on free, unlimited on premium.
- A notification role beats a systematic @everyone by a wide margin.
- A dedicated channel keeps alerts findable and mutable on demand.
- TikTok and Instagram are not followed: no reliable platform-side method exists.
- Without “Embed Links”, the alert goes out with no preview.
Frequently asked questions
Does the bot post YouTube Shorts?
The YouTube feed follows the channel’s publications. Depending on how YouTube exposes a Short, it may not appear as a regular video — that is a platform limit, not a module one.
Why did the alert arrive late?
Platforms are polled at regular intervals, not in real time. A few minutes’ delay is normal; it keeps within the call limits Twitch and YouTube impose.
Can you follow TikTok or Instagram?
No. Those platforms provide no reliably usable public feed, and a patched-together tracker would stop working the first time they change their site.
Put this guide into practice
Kuratos sets up in minutes what this guide describes, and is configured from a web interface rather than through commands.