A unified API wrapper for YouTube and Twitch chat bots.
Project description
Chatto
A unified API wrapper for YouTube and Twitch chat bots.
CPython versions 3.7 through 3.10 and PyPy versions 3.7 and 3.8 are officially supported.
Windows, MacOS, and Linux are all supported.
Installation
To install the latest stable version of Chatto:
pip install chatto
# If you need types:
pip install "chatto[types]"
To install the latest development version:
pip install git+https://github.com/parafoxia/chatto
You may need to prefix these commands with a call to the Python interpreter depending on your OS and Python configuration.
Setup
Before you begin, you will need to have a Google Developers project with the YouTube Data API V3 enabled. You need an API key, and if you want to send and delete messages, you will need an OAuth client ID.
Although this project is currently undocumented, one of my other projects has a guide. Just make sure to select the Data API and not the Analytics API as mentioned in that guide.
Creating a YouTube bot
To create a simple YouTube bot, you could do something like this:
import os
from chatto import YouTubeBot
from chatto.events import MessageCreatedEvent
async def message_callback(event: MessageCreatedEvent) -> None:
if event.message.content.startswith("!hello"):
await bot.send_message(f"Hi {event.message.channel.name}!")
if __name__ == "__main__":
bot = YouTubeBot(
# Your project's API key.
os.environ["API_KEY"],
# The ID of the channel whose stream you want to connect to.
os.environ["CHANNEL_ID"],
# Your OAuth client ID secrets file.
secrets_file="secrets.json",
)
# Set a callback to execute whenever a new message is received.
bot.events.subscribe(MessageCreatedEvent, message_callback)
# This is blocking, so should be the last thing you call.
bot.run()
Chatto relies on the /search
endpoint to find a live broadcast from a channel, which is not 100% reliable. If you are having major issues getting Chatto to find your channel's live stream, you can pass the stream ID directly:
bot.run(with_stream_id=os.environ["STREAM_ID"])
If you don't want to use OAuth, you can launch Chatto in read-only mode. Note that your bot will not be able to send or delete messages in this mode:
bot.run(read_only=True)
Creating a Twitch bot
Twitch bots are not yet supported.
Contributing
Contributions are very much welcome! To get started:
- Familiarise yourself with the code of conduct
- Have a look at the contributing guide
License
The Chatto module for Python is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.
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