This documentation use an anonymousaccount to connect the bridge to the chat.But since the livechat v10.1.0, there is a new way to generate long term authentication token, that allows to connect using youraccount.Thisis used for [OBS docks](/peertube-plugin-livechat/documentation/user/obs).Using this feature for other purposes isnot documented and not officially supported yet.If you want to use it anyway, youcan request a token by calling then `/plugins/livechat/router/api/auth/tokens` endpoint.To get needed headers and request body, just check what happens when you generate a new token for OBS docks.
This chat module is based onthe XMPP protocol, also known as Jabber.It is therefore possible to connect to the chats using [XMPP client software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Clients).Thiscan for example be useful to facilitate moderation operations.
For theuser documentation associated with these features, please refer to the [user documentation page](/peertube-plugin-livechat/documentation/user/xmpp_clients/).
Enabling these features requires configuration changes onthe server, and onthe DNS records.It isnot possible to configure thisonly from the Peertube interface, and it requires some basic system some basic system admin skills.
To enable this feature, you will need to set up your server and DNS records, so that XMPP clients can find and access the [Prosody server](https://prosody.im) that this plugin uses internally.