> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ocoya.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Kick

> Send scheduled chat messages to your Kick channel, and what Kick accepts.

Kick has no post feed. The only thing an application can publish to a channel is a **chat message**, so a "Kick post" in Ocoya is a message in your channel's chat — text, and nothing else.

That makes it useful for going-live announcements, schedule changes and links, timed to land when your chat is actually watching.

## Connect Kick

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Channels">
    Select **Channels** in the left sidebar, then **Connect channel**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose Kick">
    Pick **Kick** from the **Add a connection** panel — it's listed under **Streaming**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Authorize on Kick">
    Ocoya sends you to Kick to approve reading your account, reading your channel, and sending chat messages. All three are needed: without chat access the channel connects and then fails at publish.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What you can post

| Post type | Supported |
| --------- | --------- |
| Text      | Yes       |
| Link      | Yes       |
| Images    | No        |
| GIF       | No        |
| Video     | No        |

**Chat carries no attachments.** Attach media to a post going to Kick and it's refused — put the link in the text instead.

## Long messages become a thread

A Kick chat message is capped at **500 characters**, and separately at **2,048 bytes** — emoji and accented characters spend more than one byte each, so a message can hit the byte cap first.

Write more than fits and Ocoya splits it into several messages, each a reply to the one before, so it reads as a single thread in chat rather than loose lines. The whole caption can run to **5,000 characters** before the composer refuses it.

Both limits are checked as you type, so a caption that would break at publish fails in the editor instead.

## Kick's limits

|                     |                                 |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------- |
| Per message         | 500 characters, and 2,048 bytes |
| Whole caption       | 5,000 characters                |
| Images, GIFs, video | Not supported                   |

## Common problems

**"Kick posts require text or a link."** The post is empty. Media alone isn't a chat message, and Kick won't take it anyway.

**"Kick captions cannot exceed 5,000 characters including links."** Shorten it, or split it into more than one scheduled post.

**"This Kick account cannot post to the channel. Reconnect and approve sending chat messages."** The authorization went through without chat access. Reconnect and approve all three permissions.

**"This Kick channel is missing its broadcaster id. Please reconnect."** The connection is incomplete — it was stored before Ocoya could resolve the channel. Reconnect it.

**"Connection to your profile has expired. Please reconnect."** See [Reconnect a channel](/help/reconnect-a-channel).

## Related

<Columns cols={2}>
  <Card title="Twitch" icon="twitch" href="/help/channels/twitch">
    The other streaming chat channel, which works the same way.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Long posts and threads" icon="list" href="/help/long-posts-and-threads">
    How Ocoya splits a long caption.
  </Card>
</Columns>