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Add a tool to OBS

Paste your overlay link into a browser source, size it to match, and keep the background transparent.

  1. In a builder, tap Copy URL.
  2. In OBS, add a new Browser source to your scene. Other streaming apps have a similar source. Give it a name you will recognise.
  3. Paste the link into its URL box.
  4. Set the source size to match, and keep the background transparent. For the tracker, set the source size to match the map size you chose.

The overlay pages draw their own transparent background, so you see only the card or text on top of your scene. If you do not want the dark card behind weather or the viewer count, set Card background to transparent in that builder. Platform stats has no background setting. Its tiles always show.

Size and position

Most tools place themselves in one of nine spots in the source, using Position: top, middle or bottom, and left, centre or right. The chat tool fills the whole source, so its size is the chat area. If you resize the chat source, the layout adjusts without changing the link.

When a page asks for location

Weather and the IRL location tracker can read your device’s location, and OBS and some other apps block that. Weather only asks when you pick This device (browser location). The tracker asks unless you pick Fixed coordinates (testing / OBS-CEF) or RTIRL pull key (off-device rigs). In weather, A city I type and Fixed latitude / longitude need no location permission. A tracker that cannot get a position stays blank. See Weather & local time and IRL location tracker.

Nothing shows

Emoji and icons come from a small public image set. If one fails to load, plain text characters show instead.