Introduction
What OBScure is and how these docs are organized
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Welcome to OBScure
OBScure is a Windows desktop app (built on Electron) that acts as a control panel for your stream. It replaces a pile of separate browser-source overlays, alert widgets, and mini-game bots with one app that:
- hosts your overlays — web pages you add to OBS as Browser Sources — built visually with a node-based Scene Builder, no HTML/CSS/JS required,
- connects to Twitch, YouTube, Spotify, Streamer.bot, OBS itself, and Windows' own media session to pull in live alerts, chat, now-playing data, and stats,
- ships two built-in on-stream games, Random and Roulette, with a provably-fair hash/seed reveal,
- runs a reusable Actions & Queues system (modeled on Streamer.bot's own) for firing named scenes from chat commands or external triggers,
- and keeps everything organized into profiles — separate sets of overlays, integrations, and settings you can switch between instantly.
Everything OBScure serves to OBS is one local web server running on your own machine — nothing leaves your PC except the API calls each integration itself needs (Twitch, YouTube, Spotify).
How these docs are organized
- Getting Started — install the app, connect OBS, understand profiles.
- Interface Tour — what each section of the sidebar does.
- Integrations — connecting Twitch, YouTube, Spotify, Streamer.bot, OBS, and Windows Media.
- Scene Builder — the node editor: core concepts plus a full reference of every node type (content, transform/style, process, live data, tools).
- Actions & Queues — chat commands, named actions, and how their queues work.
- Tools — configuring the Random and Roulette on-stream games.
- Data — global variables and the live event log.
- Profiles & Settings — window behavior, overlay server address, canvas size, appearance.
- Glossary — short definitions for terms used throughout these docs.
If you've never opened OBScure before, start with Getting Started — it walks through installing the app and pointing OBS at your first overlay.