Quick answer: Kick.com exposes no API for past chat and no download button. A kick chat scraper connects to Kick's public Pusher WebSocket — the same one the kick.com website uses to render chat — subscribes to one or more channels by slug, and archives every message in real time with sender, role, badges, hex color, and timestamps. The Apify Actor below costs $0.001 per message (~$1.05 per 1,000). Once a stream ends, that chat is gone. You have one window to capture it: while the stream is live.
Kick is the 4th-largest live-streaming platform as of Q3 2025, and it has a problem Twitch and YouTube solved years ago: no native chat history. On Twitch, GET /v2/channels/{channel}/videos/{video}/comments hands you past chat line by line; on YouTube, Live Chat Replay is baked into the VOD. On Kick, once the stream ends, the chat is gone from every surface — website, mobile app, and any publicly documented API endpoint.
So the streamer who ran a giveaway and wants to verify the winner, the moderation team auditing a harassment incident after the fact, and the researcher building a Kick toxicity classifier all have zero official options — unless the chat was captured live.
This post explains what the underlying surface is, why connecting to it is harder than it looks, and how to run the Kick Chat Archive Actor.
