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search:
  tags:
    - Chat bot
    - POST
seo:
  description: >-
    The bot says your message in the streamer's Twitch chat, spoken by the same…
    Reference for the POST /chat/messages endpoint in the TipPage Developer API
    API.
sidebar:
  badge: POST
  label: Send a chat message
title: Send a chat message
type: openapi-operation
---
The bot says your message in the streamer's Twitch chat, spoken by the same identity as every other bot line (TipPageBot or the linked custom bot). Sent verbatim - no template variables - and it can't start with `/` or `!`, so the bot never runs Twitch slash commands or triggers other bots. Own rate limit on top of the global ones: 20 messages per 30 seconds per streamer, shared across all keys. Requires `chat:write`.

<Operation source="api" id="sendchatmessage" />