IRC Bot to notify when Twitch/Hitbox/Etc. streams go live?
reddit / irc

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ZacharyM123 · 2014-05-31 20:39

Yo. So I started a chatroom for fighting games on /r/injusticegame
about a year ago, we have a pretty in depth bot who shows us tweets
from top players, weather, and gets the latest combos for fighting
games with a command.

We do a lot of live streaming watching each others fights, and it'd be
nice to have the bot automatically poll a list of stream names and
notify us when one goes live. I can't for the life of me figure out
how to poll twitchs API for live streams though, has anyone figured
something like this out? I searched all over but trying to find a
"Twitch Bot" that isn't just a moderation bot is pretty hard. I
started scripting our bot in Python, so a python solution would be
ideal but not necessary. Thanks guys.

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aFreshMelon · 2014-05-31 20:43

Hitbox' API is very unreliable.

The Twitch API is very easy, are you looking for a specific bot
language? I know someone who has something like this written up in
Java.

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ZacharyM123 · 2014-05-31 20:45

Having the java code would be great as a reference. Would he mind
sharing?

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aFreshMelon · 2014-05-31 21:12

I'll ask when he comes online.

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ZacharyM123 · 2014-05-31 21:19

Awesome, I appreciate it.

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Derimagia · 2014-06-01 16:10

I made a script for Twitch Streams for a chat bot called Ibid. Ibid
doesn't seem to be updating so I'm looking to switch, but at any rate
you can look at the script I wrote for reference. It's written in
python.

https://github.com/Derimagia/IBID-
Plugins/blob/master/ibid/plugins/twitchbroadcaster.py

Twitch API can be found here:
https://github.com/justintv/twitch-api

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ZacharyM123 · 2014-06-01 16:18

Thank you! So far I've gotten it to output a live or not response by
triggering it, but havent been able to check in intervals yet, this
helps.