mechevarria / twitch-live-discord

Python script to post Twitch Live stream details to a channel in Discord

twitch-live-discord

Python script to authenticate against the Twitch API, get live user details and then post a rich text message to a channel in Discord. The reason I built this instead of using a bot is that most bots do not add a random number to the preview URL, resulting in a cached image in Discord

Setup

• Register an application with Twitch. Note the Client ID and Client Secret

• Create a Webhook in Discord. Note the Webhook URL

• Make sure python and python-dotenv are installed

brew install python
/opt/homebrew/bin/python3 -m pip install --break-system-packages python-dotenv requests

• Create a .env file in the root directory to put the follow variables

TWITCH_USER="twitch_streamer_name"
CLIENT_ID="<your twitch app client id"
CLIENT_SECRET="<your twitch dev secret>"
WEBHOOK_URL="https://discord.com/api/webhooks/<REST OF THE URL>

Execute the script

• Run the script to with the following command.

python3 script.py

• Example output in Discord

StreamDeck Integration

• To launch with StreamDeck Use the System -> Open option

Windows

• If you are using Windows Subsystem for Linux you can launch with this command

wsl.exe "/usr/bin/python3" "/home/user/git/twitch-live-discord/script.py"

Mac

• StreamDeck will only open .sh files so select bash-python.sh

you will need to edit the hardcoded path to script.py inside this file to match your system