Twitch Getting Started with Chatbots & IRC

Chatbot Overview

Twitch offers an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) interface for chat functionality. Chatbots allow you to programmatically interact with a Twitch chat feed using IRC standards; the bot connects to the Twitch IRC network as a client to perform these actions.This guide presents an easy bot example to get you started.

Building the Bot

We’ll build a simple chatbot that responds in chat when someone types !dice. (This is known as a chatbot command.) When triggered, it randomly generates a number between 1-6. We run the fully-functioning chatbot on this Glitch, as well as show you how to run locally on our Developer Docs.

Get Environment Variables

To start, you’ll need three environment variables:

Variable	Description
`BOT_USERNAME`	The account (username) that the chatbot uses to send chat messages. This can be your Twitch account. Alternately, many developers choose to create a second Twitch account for their bot, so it's clear from whom the messages originate.
`CHANNEL_NAME`	The Twitch channel name where you want to run the bot. Usually this is your main Twitch account.
`OAUTH_TOKEN`	The token to authenticate your chatbot with Twitch's servers. Generate this with https://twitchapps.com/tmi/ (a Twitch community-driven wrapper around the Twitch API), while logged in to your chatbot account. The token will be an alphanumeric string.

Running the bot

To start with this template, click the Remix button in the upper right.
Glitch automatically installs Node and Tmi.js for us.
Add the three environmental vars in our .env file.
View the code in bot.js.
Your chatbot is ready to run! Glitch automatically deploys & runs each version. View the status button to ensure there are no errors.
Try the chatbot! Interact with your channel (twitch.tv/<CHANNEL_NAME>) by trying the !dice command.

Note: This bot connects to the IRC network as a client and isn't designed to respond over HTTP. If you click "Show Live" you will see a simple "Hello World"

Next Steps

For a thorough understanding of Twitch chatbots and IRC, read the Chatbots & IRC Guide and the rest of the Twitch IRC documentation.
To authenticate your chatbot in a production setting, we recommend you register your app (chatbot) and use the OAuth Authorization code flow. This enables you to authenticate programmatically. To learn more, read the Apps & Authentication Guide. Read Chatbots & IRC documentation.
Reach out to the Twitch chatbot forum for help!

How get the refresh token

Configure Environment Vars

Navigate to Spotify Dashboard and create a new app.
Click, edit settings and add "https://localhost:3000/callback" to the "Redirect URIs" section
Next, we need to do a Authoration Code flow auth request to retrieve a Refresh Token.
- Replace "MY_CLIENT_ID" in the following url with your Client ID from your Spotify Dashboard and paste the url in your browser. Your client id and secret id can be found in your dashboard, pic below
https://accounts.spotify.com/es/authorize?client_id=MY_CLIENT_ID&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https:%2F%2Flocalhost:3000%2Fcallback&scope=user-read-playback-state&user-read-currently-playing&user-read-private&user-read-email&user-top-read&user-read-recently-played
- Once done, you will get a blank page with a different url which is like "https://localhost:3000/callback?code=MY_CODE"
- Next, navigate to Base64Encode and insert your client id and secret id separated with a colon. For example, "CLIENT_ID:SECRET_ID"
- Then, insert your base 64 encoded string and code from the previous steps in the following command and press enter to run.
curl -H "Authorization: Basic MY_BASE_64_STRING" -d grant_type=authorization_code -d code=MY_SPOTIFY_CODE -d redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A3000%2Fcallback https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token
- Once done correctly, you will get JSON which contains your refresh token, shown in the blue box in the image above. Take out the refresh token, blocked out in green above, and save it somewhere

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