Twitch Chat Game

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#1

Morning!

I’m trying to make a small game where I can control using the twitch chat. Something like this:

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Before ask here I did my research and I think the websocket asset can help with that BUT I don’t have a clue how something like this work. I downloaded the websocket example and tried to connect to the ‘://irc-ws.chat.twitch.tv:80’ (based on their API. I hope that ‘ws’ stands for ‘websocket’ hehe). It actually connected but gets disconnected a few seconds later. Maybe I missing out the params (using client_id, login, pass. I couldn’t find a good list of things needed to make a stable connection).

So my question is: any of you ever tried to make something like this? Is the websocket asset the right tool?
Thank you!

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#2

Hello Alex,

I was thinking I would look into writing a library for this in the next few months. Have you setup a Client ID and setup the authentication?

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Otherwise I’ll try and look into it next weekend (23rd -24th).

Cheers,
Spen

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#3

Yes, I got a client ID and genereated an OAuth. But like I said maybe I did something wrong on the params. I’ll take a closer look this evening and update the the thread.

#4

I was actually going to ask about something like this myself at some point! Would be very interested in a writeup on how to use the Twitch API in Defold. The more detailed the better - I’ve had a look at their docs but don’t even know how to get the OAuth done!

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#5

We actually implemented this in Interrogation. It was… thorny… And I’m not sure it’s even legal use of their API (since the redirect URL points to localhost). We spin up a HTTP server inside the game serving a small HTML page to handle opening OAuth and the redirect callback, then for the actual chat, I think I adapted some IRC Lua library if I remember correctly.

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#6

Have fun (this might or might not work for you, no warranties disclaimer blah blah):

irc.lua (1.9 KB)
twitch_desktop.lua (7.0 KB)
url_utils.lua (736 Bytes)
redirect_page.lua (5.5 KB)

There’s some interrogation-specific stuff in there, but you should be able to adapt it. It requires defnet and luasocket.

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