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Clip Alert Widget

The Clip Alert widget plays a Twitch clip sent to it by the Play Clip flow effect. It arrives ready to use.

It is a Flow Alert Widget with its fields already decided, because the Play Clip node works everything out from the clip itself. That also means you cannot edit its parameter list — the node sends those fields regardless.

How It Works​

  1. Add a Clip Alert widget to your overlay and give it an Alert name
  2. In the flow editor, add a Play Clip effect and pick this widget from its dropdown
  3. That's it — the widget already contains a clip player and a title caption

It starts hidden, plays the clip when one arrives, then hides again.

What it receives​

TokenDescription
{{flowAlert.clip_url}}The playable video URL
{{flowAlert.clip_title}}The clip's title
{{flowAlert.clip_broadcaster}}Who the clip is from
{{flowAlert.clip_duration}}Length in seconds
{{flowAlert.clip_thumbnail}}Thumbnail image URL

These appear in the variable picker when you edit a child widget, so you can add your own layout around the clip — a "clip from {{flowAlert.clip_broadcaster}}" caption, a thumbnail, a frame.

Why it queues​

A clip takes over the screen and has sound, so it is an alert: it waits for whatever is already showing to finish, and the next alert waits for the clip. Clips never land on top of each other or on top of a subscription alert.

The clip's own length decides how long it holds, capped by the Play Clip node's Max duration when you set one. You do not need to set Hold yourself.

Playing the same clip twice in a row works — the second play restarts it.

Settings​

  • Alert name — how the Play Clip node addresses this widget
  • Animation / Easing / In duration / Hold / Out duration — how it appears and leaves
  • Backdrop — an optional background behind the clip

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