Barebones Twitch Bot in Python

This is the companion repo to a tutorial on dev.to

This is a starter-kit for Twitch chat bot, if you wanna write one in Python. It utilizes the TwitchIO library and YAML files for storing secrets and config info.

It's pretty basic right now, but I'll be expanding on this in the near future. The larger, more complex Twitch bot is being developed HERE during Live-Streams on Twitch.

Getting Started

Should be quick & easy to get up and running but, ofc, if you ever have questions about the specifics, please feel free to ask me during streams or post an issue above.

Prerequisites

Python 3.6
PIPENV -> python -m pip install pipenv
oauth token & client-id for a Twitch account for your bot

Installing

Clone the repo, unzip it somewhere
Open up a console window and navigate to the directory you unzipped it in
Install requirements with pipenv install
Copy & rename integrations-example.yaml to integrations.yaml
Pop in all your secrets into the respective areas in integrations.yaml
Back to the console, pipenv run python bot.py to start the bot
Type !test in the chatroom to test the bot's working

You just installed a basic chat bot for Twitch! Have fun expanding the bot with more commands!! :D

Bot Interaction

Right now, you can only interact with the bot via the single command, !test. You can create similar commands pretty easily, just copy the function and change out the function name decorator arguement...

@bot.command(name='likethis', aliases=['this'])
async def likethis(ctx):
    await ctx.send(f'Asuh, @{ctx.author.name}!')

Test is out with !likethis in chat! :D

Events

There are 2 events that are used in the code right now.. on_ready and on_event.

on_ready

This executes when the bot comes online, and will print out to the console.

@bot.event
async def event_ready():
    print(f'Ready | {bot.nick}')

event_message

This function executes once per event (or message) sent. You can make it handle input from chat that aren't necesarily commands, and fun stuff like that.

@bot.event
async def event_message(message):
    print(message.content)
    await bot.handle_commands(message)

You can find more info in TwitchIO's official documentation.

Progress & Development Info

Contributors & Licenses

NinjaBunny9000 - Author, Project Manager - Twitch // Twitter

Special Thanks

Literally everyone that's helped even the smallest bit during streams. Thank you so much, y'all!

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