How to login chatbot without using https://twitchapps.com/tmi/

[BarryCarlyon]

@MountainRiderAK

Once again, the bot isn’t going to open a web browser and log into Twitch. And no matter how many times you paste that link into your answers, it doesn’t make it any more helpful.

You need to create a webpage to collect the initial auth. Then the initial auth is given to the bot to use and connect to chat.

@BarryCarlyon

As this provides a user token and a refresh token, so you oAuth once, store the two tokens then use the refresh token as needed. (oAuth validity for a chat bot is checked at bot connected to chat, so you only need to refresh when the bot boots before it connects to chat). Normally this token is valid for four hours, but when it expires the bot is not disconnected from chat.

Then when that token expires you use the refresh token to generate a new token.

@MountainRiderAK

await self.send_data(f"PASS {access_token}")

For IRC the token needs to be preceeded by oauth:

await self.send_data(f"PASS oauth:{access_token}")

This is covered in the Connecting to IRC docs

Chat & Chatbots