live streamer toolCreating a Twitch Bot is a rather trivial process for most veteran programmers. I’ve been just too lazy to do it. But after adding up all these commands in a commands.yaml file it is about time to make it a reality. Cloudbot is very amazing, but let’s face it, there is a lot more that I want to do with it not to mention integrate it with my systems here to allow changing things on my system and activating robots and lights and stuff at home.
All that fun stuff is good and all, but not being able to quickly create a new information command is actually costing me time and money because I just keep dumping stuff into Cloudbot never to be able to pull it out through any API call or anything. The time to right a scrapper to get all those commands is just about the time it would take to just fucking make a Twitch bot in Go. Plus that gives me the opportunity to have it connect to the IRC chat and bridge that as well as connect to all the event API stuff.
And another thing: I keep adding new shell scripts to interact with Twitch in different ways using curl commands but it would just be better to send those events to a local queue and have the bot manage them asynchronously, which could involve stuff besides Twitch as well.
I think I’ll go with the name live for the command line and live agent for the agent, which will just be a Bonzai command (of course).