How to add "users" to your bot?

[BarryCarlyon]

@Carbow

I’ve made a bot (which is an app technically) but act like a user and has the same auth code flow as a user. I’ve already implemented the OAuth Authorization code flow but with this GET http call (from the bot) but I get redirected and can not grab the access_token which is in url and it’s not in response body.

An “app” is the program in your wording, it would seem.
The program will connect to chat as a user.
So it uses a user token, since it needs to operate as a user.

The App Access Token is only useful for accessing public data and cannot be used to write. (Using chat is write)

@Carbow

I’ve already implemented the OAuth Authorization code flow but with this GET http call (from the bot) but I get redirected and can not grab the access_token which is in url and it’s not in response body.

You used implicit auth instead of regular code auth.
Should be using the latter for most applications/programs.

@Carbow

So I guess I have to

1. make a front-end
2. auth the user from the front-end with OAuth authorization code flow (wich is a HTTP GET call) and get redirected to the front-end (I do not know how to grab the token from url in the backend otherwise…).
3. The user click to a basic button to add the bot to his channel, making a call to my backend /join.
4. On the join I send this specific token generated by the user in the front to the back-end (bot) and create a client with this token for each user who is signing ?

Are we talking about getting the bot auth token.
Or the flow to let users sign up to use your bot.

This looks like the latter.

Either way:

1. Create a web page that has a <a href=""> link to Twitch oAuth
2. User clicks that link
3. The accept (or decline) the link
4. They come back to your website with a ?code
5. Back end grabs the ?code and exchanges it for a token and refresh token.
6. User is now logged into your website essentially.

@Carbow

On the join I send this specific token generated by the user in the front to the back-end (bot) and create a client with this token for each user who is signing ?

No.

Since your bot is logging into chat as the bot and not as every other user

The chat join command doesn’t need the token just the user name.

Bot logged in as fred
Alice logs into your website and hits the join button
Website tells bot to do a thing
Bot then sends /join #alice