youtube-toolbox
Web app that runs on AWS but talks to Google 😭
Why
A family member who is a content creator was unsatisfied with the features of StreamLabs and StreamElements. Neither did everything they need. In addition there was a desire to create highly customized triggers from chat activity, to for example influence a game being placed on stream and for which some work had already been done.
Sure, they could just hook it up to a button on their stream deck, but there is always a chance that a notification could be missed or delayed.
Requirements
Listens to chat of a youtube channel. Assign various cooldowns to the type of events that occur in chat (chat / superchat / gift / membership) and add points associated with a viewer when these events happen outside a cooldown.
Viewers can type !points to have a bot print the number of points they have and !redeem {type} to redeem points for a type of reward. If they have enough points then the reward is fired.
Rewards include:
- Play a sound
- Influence a game (e.g. spawn an enemy)
Architecture
I have a lot more experience in AWS than GCP. In hindsight, building a cloud service to talk to google cloud may have best been done in GCP and learning is learning but in this case I stuck with what I know.
To play sound effects, a webpage is used to listen for events that require a sound effect to be played. The webpage is added as a scene in OBS.
Getting a token to connect to a livechat requires an oauth grant flow, which again requires a webpage.
Next.js and next-auth are used for the core web technology and the wrapper around google-oauth.