A basic discord bot that tracks twitch streams for a list of games, and posts messages to discord when twitch streams go live.
Note: It only posts to one discord server and one channel.
Rename the config.json.example file to config.json and edit the settings in the file.
To get the channel ID of a channel in your discord server, turn on developer mode in your discord user settings (under "Appearance"). You can then get the channel ID by right-clicking a channel and selecting "Copy ID".
To create a Twitch development app for the Client-ID and Client-Secret go to the Twitch Developers website
To create a Discord Bot / Application and get a bot token, check out the Discord Developer Portal
To get the bot running, you will need a Twitch OAuth Refresh Token. To receive one, run through the OAuth Authorization Code Flow - at the end of the process, you will have an Access Token and a Refresh Token.
To get a list of games you want to track, grab the id and boxArt off the Twitch API Games Endpoint An entry for the games object needs to have the following format:
{
"twitchGameID": { "name": "Name of your Choice / Gamename", "boxArt": "twitchBoxArtImageLink" }
}The tags array includes Twitch streaming tags that should be included in your search. Per default, "Speedrun", "Randomizer", and "TAS" are tracked. For more or different tags check the Full API Tags list.
Install the node.js dependencies:
npm i
Run the bot:
node index.js
To run it permanently, use a process manager like PM2