Vivelin / Waterbot

Generic Twitch chat bot

Waterbot

Waterbot is a generic Twitch chat bot with no remarkable features as of yet. The bot will respond to greetings, announce when it is entering or leaving a channel, and responds to commands of the following forms:

• !help
• help @username
• @username help

where username is the name of the user the bot is connected as.

Quick start

1. Download the latest release or get the source and build it with Visual Studio;

2. Start WaterbotServer.exe from a command prompt. This should tell you that a default configuration has been created. Open this file in a text editor and modify at least the following values:

   • UserName: The username of the Twitch account for the bot to run as;
   • OAuthToken: The OAuth token for the Twitch account which can be generated at https://twitchapps.com/tmi/;
   • DefaultChannels: The channels to join upon starting Waterbot. Waterbot will always join the its own channel (specified by UserName) and any channels specified on the command line.

3. Start WaterbotServer.exe again. It should connect to Twitch and join the channels you specified;

4. Press Ctrl+C to leave all channels and disconnect from Twitch chat.