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Read Twitch Chat (Not for a Bot) - Mаestro - Oct 30, 2015
Hey guys, I've been working on a project to further my knowledge and I've run into a snag and can't find anything on how to do this. Anyway, I just want to get the chat text itself not be able to send messages or bot, so I can have the twitch chat in an application. Twitch had said it is HTML5 and Irc so I guess you could go somewhere with that? Don't want the code written for me just an informational page or something to jump start me in the direction I need. Thanks.
* - stratex - Oct 30, 2015
https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API/blob/master/IRC.md
If you need more help in implementing I can post some code.
* - BahNahNah - Oct 31, 2015
Irc uses TCP.
Using a TCPClient to connect and StreamReader to read is the easiest way.
Here is an example if you want one.
* - Josh - Nov 2, 2015
You will need:
• A method of connecting to an IRC server, so manually handing a TCPClient or a library
• A twitch account, complete with a chat_login oauth code
• The twitch channel you want to connect to
What you need to do:
• Connect to the irc server "irc.twitch.tv" on port "6667"
• Set the username and nickname to your twitch account in all lower case
• Set the password to be your twitch oauth, E.g. "oauth:aiudhf89daghaakjhgda"
• Once you are connected, to join a stream's channel, you need to join "#" + channel name in lowercase
• Handle message received, you will get the twitch username in lowercase and the message
• If you want to handle whispers, it's a whole lot more work
If you need a hand, I've worked with twitch in Vb.NET and Java before, so just HMU with a PM.