thinc5 / live-chat

Generic chat bot for livestreaming platforms, aims to be platform agnostic. Powered by deno.

Generic livestream platform chat bot

What

A platform agnostic interactive chatbot written for the deno javascript run time in typescript.

Why

I created this prototype as a proof of concept for one of my last university courses and also as an excuse to try deno. The project focused on investigating the space between live streamed musical performances and potential chat interaction. As such there is a DAW component which at the moment just allows the playing of music files from a target directory.

How

Commands are defined in src/commands and must implement Command and extend AbstractCommand.

To start the bot you must supply the environment variables specified in .env.example, this also involves generating any required authorization tokens e.g. an oauth token for the twitch integration.

When you have the environment variables set up you can run deno run --allow-read --allow-net --allow-run Index.ts.

Current commands can be listed with (prefix)help in the chat or you can check which ones have been registered in Index.ts. There is still work to be done when implementing useful usage responses to invalid commands.

Support

At the moment only twitch.tv is supported although I am confident it would be trivial to support other live streaming platforms as long as they provide a comparable api.