How to publish your Twitch stream schedule to Discord automatically
Twitch already has a schedule feature, and it's decent. The problem is that it only exists on Twitch. Your Discord — where your most invested viewers actually hang out — has no idea it changed.
So you paste the week's times into a channel, and then reality happens: you move Thursday, add a Sunday collab, cancel Friday. Each change needs you to remember to go and edit a Discord message. The pinned post drifts out of date, people stop trusting it, and it may as well not be there.
This guide connects the two properly: your Twitch schedule → StreamDay → Discord, updating itself, with times that render in each member's own local time.
What you end up with
Two automatic posts to a channel you choose:
- A weekly summary — the week ahead, posted on the day and time you pick.
- Go-live reminders — up to three per stream, at lead times you choose.
Both use native Discord timestamps rather than typed text, so Discord renders every time in each reader's own timezone and clock format. One message, correct for everyone, with nobody doing conversion maths.
Same underlying trick as writing Discord timestamps by hand, except generated from your real schedule instead of built one at a time.
Before you start
- A StreamDay account. Sign-in is via Discord, so there's no separate signup step.
- Segments on your Twitch schedule. The sync reads the schedule you keep in your Twitch Creator Dashboard — it doesn't create it. If yours is empty, how to schedule streams on Twitch covers setting it up.
- Manage Webhooks permission on the Discord server. If it's not your server, the owner does Step 4 and sends you the URL.
The Discord integration appears once your schedule is published, which needs a subscription (30-day free trial). Everything up to that point is free, so you can connect Twitch, see your whole schedule imported, and preview the public page before paying anything.
Step 1 — Connect Twitch
On your Schedule page, find the Platform sync panel in the sidebar and connect Twitch. You'll go through Twitch's standard authorisation screen.
Here's the part worth calling out, because it's unusually good news: StreamDay requests no Twitch scopes at all. The scope list is empty. It reads your schedule through Twitch's public helix/schedule endpoint, which needs no special permission beyond identifying which channel you are.
Practically, that means the connection cannot:
- read or send chat
- change your title, category, or stream settings
- see your subscriber list, revenue, or analytics
- run ads, create clips, or moderate anything
It can see your public schedule. That's the whole surface area.
Step 2 — Check what came through
The first sync runs the moment you connect. Your Twitch schedule segments — including recurring weekly ones — should land on the calendar next to anything you've added manually.
From then on it syncs hourly. There's a Sync all platforms button for when you've just changed something, with a roughly 15-minute per-platform cooldown; if you hit it, StreamDay says so plainly instead of claiming a sync it didn't do.
Two things to sanity-check now:
- Recurring segments look right. Twitch recurring slots come through as recurring streams. If a weekly slot is wrong here, it's wrong on Twitch.
- Cancellations. Cancelling a single occurrence on Twitch is different from deleting the segment. Confirm the behaviour matches what you expected before Discord starts announcing it.
Streaming on YouTube too? Publishing a unified Twitch and YouTube schedule covers merging both into one page — and the Discord setup below is unchanged, since it posts whatever is on your schedule.
Step 3 — Publish your schedule
Use the Public Link panel on the same page. Publishing gives you a public URL for your Twitch panels, your bio, and your Discord pin — and it's what enables the Discord row.
The live example schedule shows exactly what a published page looks like, no signup needed.
Worth doing while you're here: a published schedule URL is a much better "when am I live?" link than a Linktree row you maintain by hand, because it can't go stale.
Step 4 — Create the Discord webhook
About a minute, entirely inside Discord. No bot to invite, nothing left running.
- Open Server Settings → Integrations → Webhooks.
- Click New Webhook.
- Choose the channel it posts to —
#stream-scheduleor#announcements. - Optionally name it StreamDay and set an avatar. That's the name members see on the posts.
- Click Copy Webhook URL.
That URL is a credential. Anyone with it can post to that channel. If it leaks, delete the webhook in Discord — that kills the old URL immediately — and create a new one.
Step 5 — Connect it in StreamDay
Back in the Public Link panel there's now a Discord row. Click Setup, paste the URL into Webhook URL, and connect.
StreamDay verifies it immediately and shows the server and channel it's posting as, so you can confirm you pasted the right webhook before anything reaches your members.
Step 6 — Set up the weekly summary
Switch on Weekly summary and pick:
- Post every — day of the week
- At — time of day
- Mention @everyone — optional, off by default
For most Twitch schedules, Monday morning or Sunday evening works best. Leave the mention off here: a weekly @everyone fires 52 times a year, and that's how announcement channels get muted by exactly the people you want reading them.
Step 7 — Add go-live reminders
Switch on Stream reminders and add up to three per stream, from 5 minutes to 12 hours ahead:
| Lead time | Good for |
|---|---|
| 5 / 10 / 15 minutes | "Starting now" — catches people already online |
| 30 minutes / 1 hour | The workhorse. Time to wrap up what they're doing |
| 2 / 3 hours | Same-day notice for a bigger stream |
| 6 / 12 hours | Morning-of notice for a raid train or collab |
Each reminder carries its own @everyone toggle. That's the part worth using well: a silent 6-hour notice plus one mentioned 15-minute ping means the notification lands only when someone can actually act on it.
A solid default is 1 hour and 15 minutes, mention on the 15 only.
What your members actually see
One post, correct for every reader:
- A viewer in São Paulo sees their evening.
- A viewer in Tokyo sees their next morning.
- Someone using 24-hour time sees 20:00; someone else sees 8:00 PM.
Discord converts locally from a single absolute moment, per reader. It also handles daylight saving automatically — which is where hand-typed "8 PM ET / 1 AM GMT" lines quietly break twice a year.
If you'd rather watch it done, there's a video walkthrough of the webhook flow.
Keeping it accurate
Changes take up to an hour to reach Discord. Sync is hourly. To push a change through sooner, use Sync all platforms — subject to the cooldown above.
You can hide a platform without disconnecting it. Each platform row has a show/hide toggle. Hiding pulls that platform's streams from your calendar and your public page while keeping the connection and its history — handy if you're trying out a second platform before making it public.
Webhooks can break. Delete the channel or the webhook and StreamDay marks it broken and prompts you to reconnect, rather than failing silently. Make a new webhook, paste the new URL.
What about Discord's built-in events?
Different tool, different job — and it's fine to use both. A Discord scheduled event is the best way to hype one stream inside your server: RSVPs, a countdown, a native notification. What it isn't is a schedule. It doesn't know your Twitch calendar, it won't update when you move a stream, and it doesn't exist outside that one server.
Discord scheduled events vs a published stream schedule goes through the trade-off properly.
In short
Connect Twitch — with no scopes granted — publish your schedule, paste one webhook URL, choose a digest day and a couple of reminder times. From then on, updating your Twitch schedule is updating your Discord, in every member's own timezone, without you writing another message.