BluBot is a Twitch chatbot that I'm developing for use during my streams. While not fully capable I will slowly be working on this project over time and giving it more fun, exciting, and intereactive features. While the bot will continuously be updated as I come up with new ideas and impliment new features you can track the current progress by clicking here.
I've spent a lot of time on Twitch throuhgout my life. The website has really introduced me to welcoming communities and interseting streamers, so much so that I became interested in streaming myself. I noticed that most popular streamers had instances of bots like "Nightbot" or "Moobot" in their chat to assist with moderation and allow for a moderate amount of chat interaction. I thought that with my programming knowledge I could do something similar so I setout to read up on the Twitch api. While my motivation to stream dwindled I still enjoyed working on learning the technologies that go into stuff such as webhooks, hosting a webserver, and sending out dynamic api requests. I learned so many real world techniques and applications through this project that I consider it the turning point in my web development hobby.
As of now this project is for personal use. It isn't finished (and never will be) and isn't nearly as polished and fucntional as NightBot is, however if someone is looking to make their own twitch bot using Node and prefers to disect already written code this project may serve as a good starting point.
If you wanted, this is how you could set up your own version:
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Download and install ngrok, get familiarized with how it works
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Clone this project using the following steps:
# clone the project
git clone https://github.com/Blugil/blubot.git
# cd to the project directory
cd blubot
# install dependencies
npm install
# cd to where you installed ngrok (I recommend the home directory)
cd
# start the server
./ngrok http 8080-
Edit the config-sample.json file and fill in all of the generic information with information specific to you.
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cd into the server directory and run
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cd into the api directory and run
node api.js. This will call the function to make a subscription to all the current categories I have subcsriptions to, remove and add as many as you like. -
Happy hacking!
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
This software is for educational purposes only, do not use software for any reason other than educational.