Bot can't send messages to other channel

[BarryCarlyon]

@kstefgf

So since it works, why should I register the bot as an application and also send to verification?

An Extension is also an application you don’t need a seperate set of keys

@kstefgf

May I keep the generated OAuth token forever?

oAuth tokens expire, but you’ll be able to use the refresh token to generate a new token.

A bot’s token is only checked at login, so it only needs to be valid at “bot start/connect”

@kstefgf

a) “20 authenticate attempts per 10 seconds per user” - when I execute client.connect(); with tmi.js is it just only one authentication attempt?

If you have a bad password, bots will generally auto reconnect.

I cannot speak to the specifics of tmi.js as I don’t use tmi.js

@kstefgf

Is my bot treated as a user?

Yes

@kstefgf

should I spread these joins in time to not exceed 20 per 10 second per my bot?

Correct

@kstefgf

so after my bot joined to mentioned 1000 channels, and want to send message to each one for every 5 minutes, does it exhaust the limit because it is set per bot or does it not exhaust because it is set per channel?

I believe it’s per channel yeah.

Generally speaking it’s difficult to hit the limits unless you are actually trying to spam

@kstefgf

Also I need to listen users’ messages, because I want to send messages only after there are at least 5 or more other lines of text, I don’t want to spam.

Can use a justinfan/anon login to monitor/count messages if needed, but I’d just send a message every 5 minutes (or whatever time period) regardles of chat lines, to account for new people joining the stream.

@kstefgf

Also I can’t use the “Extension Chat Message” because I need to send messages from another account than the extension.

Then how do they know the messaging you are sending is related to the extension? If you are using a different name! Using the Extension chat also gives you access to the target channel subscriber emotes without having to “sub the bot” to the channel