Generating client auth data for preexisting bot account

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Hello, I’m trying to migrate a bot from IRC to EventSub. However, the bot account is very old (…2019) and as far as I can tell it’s not present in any developer console, it’s just a full fledged chatbot account which I somehow have the IRC ClientID/Token for + an Oauth secret. However, when trying to authenticate, I get “Invalid client secret” from the twitch API. Is there some way to regenerate the correct client_id and client_secret for a preexisting account? Are there examples of what these pieces of data are supposed to look like? When searching for this, I can only find answers about creating a new application from scratch, which is not what I want to do, as it would presumably no longer have the correct bot username.

Thanks!

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The accounts used as a bot are just normal user accounts on Twitch, you don’t create them in the Developer Console or anything like that.

You can just create an app in the Developer Console, then log in to Twitch as the account you wish to be the bot user, and then go through the apps OAuth process as that account granting the appropriate scopes that you need.

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Thanks, that clears things up a lot!