Import from StreamElements.
Already set up elsewhere? Bring your overlays, alert settings, goals and history across so you are not starting from scratch.
The import reads your classic StreamElements overlays. The newer "Elements" overlay system from StreamElements is a separate product on a separate API, and we do not import it. If your setup was built in the Elements editor, it will not come across.
What comes over
| From StreamElements | Becomes |
|---|---|
| Classic overlays | Editable overlays, with built-in widgets mapped to ours and custom widgets brought across as custom code. |
| Alert settings | Per-event styling, sounds and thresholds. |
| Goals | Native goal widgets with your targets. |
| Tip and donation history | Records in your Stream Data and leaderboards. |
| Tip page settings | Your presets, currency and banned words. |
| Uploaded assets | Re-hosted and re-linked inside your overlays. |
What does not come over
The import is about your overlays and your history. Whole StreamElements products that have no OverlayThing counterpart are not touched and are not imported:
- "Elements", StreamElements' newer overlay system that replaced classic overlays. We import classic overlays; anything built in the Elements editor lives on a separate StreamElements API and is not picked up.
- Your StreamElements chat bot, commands and timers.
- Your loyalty points and store.
- Merch and sponsorship deals.
- Giveaways and contests.
Those keep running in StreamElements exactly as they did.
Running an import
Connect StreamElements
Paste your StreamElements token so we can read your existing setup. We show you what we found before anything is imported.
Choose what to bring
Pick which overlays and which data to import, and make a few choices up front (keeping original overlay sizes, how to handle alert boxes, and what to do with disabled events).
Review and run
Resolve any asset name clashes or font swaps, then start the import. It runs in the background and shows progress as it goes.
Check the result
Open each imported overlay and confirm the mapping. If anything is off, you can roll the whole import back and try different choices.
Bespoke StreamElements widgets come across as custom widgets, but the most advanced ones (those that relied on StreamElements-only features) may need a little rework in the custom code editor.
Imported donation history is stored in USD. Your going-forward tip currency is set in Tip settings.
The import reads StreamElements through their public data format. If that format changes or stops being available, the import can break until we update it, and we will do our best to keep up. Even working perfectly, an exact one-to-one copy is not something we can promise: the two overlay systems are built on fundamentally different foundations, so some things are recreated as the closest OverlayThing equivalent rather than reproduced identically.