Oct. 20, 2023, 10:24 p.m. | Jayson DeLancey

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Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) can be a helpful tool and tailored for different use cases with custom scripts. These can help solve a wide variety of dynamic features such as counters, timers, displaying data fetched by API, scene transitions, audio/video filters, etc. that require custom automation when hosting live streams.


A lot of the information out there about scripting in OBS is not un-surprisingly YouTube videos for Windows users. This is the blog post I wish I had found when …

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