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That includes Twitter, YouNow and even newcomer, Chinese-owned Trovo. Of course, the same goes if you’re livestreaming on non-traditional platforms. Until it does, streamers on Facebook Gaming will need to do things the old fashioned way - by copy-pasting their stream key into the OBS dashboard. Unfortunately, OBS Studio hasn’t yet rolled out its “connect account” feature to many streaming platforms. Suddenly the stream key didn’t feel so important anymore. For most YouTube creators, copy-pasting stream keys was now a thing of the past. Two years later, OBS Studio expanded the feature- and much more-to YouTube. In a single click, your Twitch and OBS accounts were linked.Ī simple login and your Twitch and OBS are connected No more hunting around in your dashboard or settings - OBS would automatically pull your stream key for you. This meant you could log into your Twitch account directly from OBS, instantly connecting the two. That changed in 2019, when OBS Studio added a “connect account” feature for Twitch streamers. That way, when you click the “Start Streaming” button on OBS, you’ll also automatically go live to YouTube or Facebook Gaming-or wherever you’re trying to broadcast.īack in the day, manually copying-and-pasting your stream key was the only way to connect to OBS. It’s how the two platforms ‘talk’ to each other.

When you input your stream key to OBS, your channel and broadcasting software become connected, or linked. Every channel has one, and no two are the same. In simple terms, a stream key is a string of letters and numbers-unique to your streaming channel. Let’s get you prepped for your first big stream.

Once you’ve mastered the OBS stream key, you’re nearly ready to hit that “Start Streaming” button.