Timeout

Time a user out and purge their chat messages. They cannot send messages until the duration is over. The user being timed out must be in the channel.

Permissions

To time a user out you must use a valid OAuth token with the chat:timeout scope.

Arguments

1. The username of the user who will be timed out.
2. The duration for which the user will be unable to send messages. A human-readable duration with units can be provided (such as 30s or 1m15s), or providing no unit will result in the value being taken as seconds. You can also use the string clear to clear a timeout.

Examples

Request

{
  "type": "method",
  "method": "timeout",
  "arguments": ["username", "30s"],
  "id": 4
}

Response

{
  "type": "reply",
  "error": null,
  "id": 4,
  "data": "username has been timed out for 30s."
}