ridgure / tagsbot

A simple bot that gets the tags of a category on twitch and filters them through a blacklist

Tags bot

A bot written in python and made for my Twitch channel Twitch.tv/Ridgure.

Key Features • Getting started • Acknowledgements • Connect

Features:

Automated functions:

Done by the bot automatically:
Gets the tags of a category on Twitch
Blacklist certain tags

Getting started

Clone

Clone this repository to your local machine using git clone https://github.com/Ridgure/TagsBot.git

Setup

In order to be able to run the bot add a file config.py in the same folder as the bot and go through the steps below: config.py should look something like this:

FollowerToken = "<Token>"          # Token generated by twitchapps.com/tmi without the oauth: part
ClientID = "<ClientID>"            # Your client ID
ClientSecret = "<Client Secret>"   # The client secret of your bot

Specify a blacklist in blacklist.py tags should be in quotation marks and separated by a comma.

tagsBlacklist = ['rerun', 'test']

• Create a Twitch account with the name of your bot
• Register your application on the Twitch developer site
  • Set the Name to the name of the account you just created
  • Set the redirect uri to http://localhost
  • Set the application directory to Chat Bot
  • Agree to the terms and conditions
  • Get a Client_ID and a Client_Secret
• Generate your token for accessing follower data and chat
  • Go to Get token here and click connect with twitch
  • Click Authorize
  • Your token should look something like this: oauth:a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i9j1k2l3m5n6o7
• Generate your token for accessing subscriber data
  • Go to the link underneath
  • Remember to swap out <clientID> with your client id!
  • Click Authenticate
  • It will look like you got a blank page but your url should look like the second url
  • Your access token is the gibberish where it says Token in the url

https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/authorize?client_id=<clientID>&redirect_uri=http://localhost&response_type=token&scope=channel_subscriptions+user_read+channel_check_subscription+chat_login
http://localhost/#access_token=<Token>&scope=channel_subscriptions+user_read+channel_check_subscription+chat_login&token_type=bearer

Prerequisites

You will need to install these things to run the bot

• Python 3.10
• Libraries:
  • Requests
  • Datetime

Running the bot

Run bot.py by going to its location and running this command:

py -3.10 tagsBot.py

Acknowledgements:

This whole project started off with this Instructables article

Other interesting projects to check out:

PythonBot by ZERG3R on Twitch as ZERG3R

Ponderier by DillonEA on Twitch as DillonEA

Xekeism by XekeDeath on Twitch as XekeDeath

Connect:

Twitch

See the bot in action when I am live on Twitch over at Twitch.tv/Ridgure

Social media

Please follow me on: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram