Stream Widgets — free live overlays for your Padventures stream
We put together a little toolkit for streamers — though honestly, anyone can use it. It gives you live, embeddable overlays for your stream: your character with its current outfit, a pokémon showcase grid, a rotating banner, and a live ball counter for your hunts.
Every widget is just a URL you drop into OBS as a Browser Source. It's transparent, it scales to whatever size you make the source, and it updates on its own — no plugins, no downloads, nothing to install.
Everything lives here: api.padventures.org
How it works (the 10-second version)
• Build a widget in the web panel.
• Copy the public URL it gives you.
• In OBS: Sources → add a Browser source → paste the URL.
• That's it. It updates live, and when you tweak the widget's settings later, the overlay changes by itself within ~15 seconds. You never have to touch OBS again.
Getting started
Three quick steps: make an account, generate a key, link your game account.
1) Register on the panel
Go to api.padventures.org and sign up with an email + password (at least 10 characters, with one letter and one number).
This account is completely separate from your game login — we never ask for your game password here. After signing up, click the confirmation link we email you (it's valid for 24 hours).
2) Generate an API key
The key is what lets the widgets read your game data without ever seeing your game password.
Log into your game account on the website, head to your account panel → API Keys, and generate a streamer key. You'll get two things:
• Key ID — public, safe to keep around.
• Key password — shown only once. Copy it immediately and store it somewhere safe.
Lost the password, or want to kill it? Just rotate it: you get a fresh password, the Key ID stays the same, and any widgets you've already linked keep working. You can also disable a key to instantly cut its access without deleting anything.
3) Link your game account
Back on the panel, open Links and paste your Key ID + Key password. That connects that game account to your streamer account. A few rules:
• A key can be linked to one streamer account only.
• You can link up to 5 game accounts to a single streamer account.
• Your email has to be verified first.
Once you have at least one active link, the widget builder unlocks and you're ready to go.
Heads up: if you rotate/disable a key or remove a link, the widgets that show your character data (Character and Ball Counter) stop rendering right away — that's intentional, it's your player data. Banner and Grid widgets keep working, since they don't touch your account.
Limits
Nothing crazy, just guard rails:
• Up to 5 linked game accounts per streamer account.
• Up to 20 widgets total.
• A few anti-spam limits on sign-ups and link attempts — if you get throttled, just wait a bit and try again.
The widgets — what each one does
Four widget types today. Two of them use your linked character's live data (Character, Ball Counter); the other two only need your streamer account (Grid, Banner).
Character
Your character, live, wearing its current outfit. Name, level, and world icon are optional toggles, and you can set the label color to match your scene. It follows you: change your outfit in-game and the overlay updates within ~15 seconds, and while you're online it pulls live data straight from the server, so things like level-ups show up fast.
Needs a linked game account.
Ball Counter
Built for hunts. Pick one of your linked characters and a pokémon species, and it shows how many of each ball type you've thrown at that species. While you're online the counter ticks up live with every ball you throw; offline it shows your last save.
Style it your way: vertical or horizontal layout, 10 color themes, 8 counter fonts, and a white or theme-tinted number.
Needs a linked game account.
Pokémon Grid
A clean grid — anything from 1×1 up to 6×6 — of pokémon sprites. Great for a "current team", a living-dex showcase, a favorites wall, whatever you want. Just type pokémon names into the cells. Sprites auto-scale, so a Charizard reads bigger than a Caterpie in the same cell.
No game account needed.
Banner Rotator
Rotate a set of banner images with the transition of your choice — 12 effects (fades, pushes, wipe, iris, blinds, checkerboard, dissolve, plus a random mode). Set the rotation interval (2–120s) and the transition speed. Perfect for sponsor / socials / schedule banners.
No game account needed.
Bonus — forum signature images
The Character, Grid, and Banner widgets can also export a downloadable animated PNG (APNG) for your forum signature — handy, because the widget URL is a live web page and won't show inside
<br><br><h2>That's it</h2><br>Make an account, generate + link a key, and start building. If something breaks — or you've got an idea for a widget you'd love to see — drop it in this thread. Happy streaming.)











