How to Request a Song on Twitch

Last Updated: September 7, 2020

Are you watching a stream on Twitch and know there is music that would fit perfectly? This wikiHow will teach you how to request a song on Twitch if the moderator has that feature enabled on the most popular bots like Nightbot or Moobot.

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Requesting a Song in Nightbot

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Find the song you want to play on YouTube or SoundCloud. Nightbot on Twitch supports playing music from either site. You'll either need the URL, which is found in the address bar at the top of your browser window, the video ID, which are the last digits of the link after "v=", or a search phrase, like "All of me by John Legend."^{[1]
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Use the following code at the beginning of your request: "!songs request". You need to include the exclamation mark at the beginning of the code to trigger the bot.

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Enter the URL, video ID, or search phrase. Your message in Twitch should look like "!songs request https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngzC_8zqInk", "!songs request ngzC_8zqInk", or "!songs request Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?".

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Requesting a Song in Moobot

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Find the song you want to request on YouTube. You'll either need the URL, which is found in the address bar at the top of your browser window, the video ID, which are the last digits of the link after "v=", or a search phrase, like "All of me by John Legend."
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Use the following code at the beginning of your request: "!songrequest". You need to include the exclamation mark at the beginning of the code to trigger the bot.
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Enter the URL, video ID, or search phrase. Your message in Twitch should look like "!songrequest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngzC_8zqInk", "!songrequest ngzC_8zqInk", or "!songrequest Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?".^{[2]
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