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

# Kick

> How to add Kick to your system

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<Warning>
  Kick here is a chat connector, not a feed. What she sends arrives as a chat message in your own Kick channel. Media never rides along, and anything past 500 characters is refused when you save it rather than trimmed. If you are connecting Kick expecting a post that sits on a profile, this is not that.
</Warning>

## What she can post to Kick

You go live in ten minutes and you want chat to already say so. Write the line, put it on the calendar, and at the minute you picked she sends it into your channel as you.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Character limit" icon="text-width">
    500 characters. A longer post is refused when you save it, not trimmed
  </Card>

  <Card title="Media" icon="photo-film">
    None. Kick chat takes text only, so anything you attach is left behind
  </Card>

  <Card title="Post types" icon="layer-group">
    Chat message, plus replies chained under it
  </Card>

  <Card title="Analytics" icon="chart-line">
    None
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

The message always goes to the channel that owns the connection, so this is your own chat and not somebody else's. She runs three Kick jobs side by side. Kick chat gives back no permalink, so the link on a sent post opens your channel page rather than the message itself.

|                   |                                                                                                                                     |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Post settings** | None. The settings block carries `__type` and nothing else, shown in the [Kick settings reference](/public-api/providers/kick)      |
| **Connect flow**  | One step. She reads your Kick user once the authorization round trip finishes, and that user id becomes the channel she writes into |
| **Automations**   | None. Comments go out as replies threaded on the chat message                                                                       |

## Self-hosting

<Info>
  On PostQueen Cloud this channel is ready: open **Add Channel** and pick it.
  Running your own instance? You register the application yourself:
  [Set up Kick on your own instance](/installation/providers/kick).
</Info>

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