r/PythonProjects2 • u/vvinvardhan • Feb 13 '22

[P] Moderate Made this twitter bot using python that tweets out streams with 0 viewers! I love talking to people with 0 viewers, seeing them light up makes my day. Hoping this would spread that joy!

https://twitter.com/no_viewers
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u/Sonictrade Feb 13 '22

Could u post code would love to learn

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u/vvinvardhan Feb 14 '22

This is not the complete code but a good starting point! If you have any questions I would be happy to answer them!

https://www.reddit.com/r/PythonProjects2/comments/srr95o/comment/hwvm09d/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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u/Whatupcraig Feb 14 '22

Mind posting the code? I’d love to see how you interacted with twitch.

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u/vvinvardhan Feb 14 '22

umm, I don't wanna post all the code! This could be a great learning opportunity for you!

Twitch has a robust API setup which you can use! These are the API endpoints I ended up using. This is a good place to start

#for access token 
f"https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token?client_id={twitch_client_id}&client_secret={twitch_client_secret}&grant_type=client_credentials"

#getting game_id from a query
f"https://api.twitch.tv/helix/search/categories?query={gamehere}"

#getting english language streams in batches of 100
f"https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?game_id={game_id}&first=100&language=en"

#and you can paginate using the Cursor provided in the Pagination part of the json data

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u/mat2358 Feb 14 '22

This is a cool idea. Would love to know how this works.

Fyi most people with 1 viewer are the same as 0 based on how Twitch reads people viewing their own dashboards.

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u/vvinvardhan Feb 14 '22

yea, but the way twitch api works, it paginates the results. So if I stop at 1 it will not get to people with 0 viewers! and I thought 0 viewers would sound more interesting!

I don't know, how would you approach this problem!

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u/GrGadget Feb 17 '22

I'm assuming this is run in a while loop? I may be totally wrong, could you not run a second query? For 0 and 1.

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u/vvinvardhan Feb 17 '22

correct. I will do that. Its gonna take me a while to get to that because I am a little busy with work right now. But I will do it.

The problem I had was not a programming one, it was an ethical one! Thanks for the input

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u/AmpleSling Mar 04 '22

Can u teach me bro

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u/vvinvardhan Mar 05 '22

I don't think I teach you but I can point you in the right direction