oliver-lloyd / twitch-listener

Easy python bot for scraping Twitch chat data

Twitch listener bot

An easy to use Python bot for retrieving Twitch chat data from multiple streams/channels simultaneously. Includes functionality to generate adjacency matrices between the streams, for the purpose of network modelling. All files are generated in your working directory.

Installation:

pip install twitch-listener

Steps for acquiring Twitch credentials (skip if you already have these):

1. Get a twitch.tv account
   • get one here https://www.twitch.tv/signup
2. Obtain a Twitch client id
   • Get yours by registering an app here https://dev.twitch.tv/console/apps/create
   • (You can set 'OAuth Redirect URL' to 'http://localhost')
3. Acquire a Twitch OAuth token
   • Get yours here https://twitchapps.com/tmi/

Store these values securely. You now have everything you need to use TwitchListener.

Example usage:

from twitch_listener import listener

# Connect to Twitch
bot = listener.connect_twitch('yourUsernameHere', 
                             'yourOauthHere', 
                             'yourClientIDHere')

# List of channels to connect to
channels_to_listen_to = ['Northernlion', 'DumbDog', 'DanGheesling']

# Scrape live chat data into raw log files. (Duration is seconds)
bot.listen(channels_to_listen_to, duration = 1800) 

# Convert log files into .CSV format
bot.parse_logs(timestamp = True)

# Generate adjacency matrix
bot.adj_matrix(weighted = False, matrix_name = "streamer_network.csv")