Help connecting a Twitch account to my own streaming deck

betali446 · April 21, 2024, 11:30am

Hello guys, I’m making my own streaming deck. There will be features such as switching the chat to follower mode only via buttons, but there is something I’m stuck on: the user will come and enter their information, the user password and account will remain registered, how can I do it?

I am writing in Python, I have python knowledge, but my API knowledge is a little weak. The user will click on connecting his account, the browser will open, then he will enter the information. After entering, his account will remain registered and he will receive the necessary tokens. How can I do this?

Which tokens are needed to perform the necessary control operations.

I would be very grateful if you could help me, thank you very much in advance.

BarryCarlyon · April 21, 2024, 11:31am

You need a User oAuth token.

For your use case likely DCF is the most effective flow - Getting OAuth Access Tokens | Twitch Developers

betali446 · April 21, 2024, 12:01pm

Hello, thanks for your reply. I didn’t understand it very well, looking at the stream decks on the market from the documentation, I didn’t understand that only the user pass is enough, there is no need to authorize anything.

as an example, I found the code to make the chat only followers special mode from the api, but I get the tokens and after a certain period of time it becomes ineffective.

BarryCarlyon · April 21, 2024, 12:07pm

Tokens don’t last for ever

User tokens (generally) live for four hours

The valiate token endpoint will tell you how long a token has left Validating Tokens | Twitch Developers

Ignore them as they don’t help you as the magic source that makes authentication go is different to what you are going to achieve and thus it’s bogging you down needlessly.

But basically

Elgato Stream deck → create an elgato account
Using the Elgato account pair it with a Twitch account via code flow oAuth
Now the stream deck can ask the Elgato server via the elgato account to return the current Twitch oAuth token and refresh if needed on the Elgato server

this predates DCF existing, so an external accounts system makes sense, even more so with Elgato market place.

For you, you want DCF so most of the Documentation around existing Decks will not help you. Since they cover how to use the deck/build plugins and not how to authenticate to other services…

betali446 · April 21, 2024, 12:16pm

import requests

url = 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/chat/settings'
headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer Token',
    'Client-Id': 'CLİENT İD',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
params = {
    'broadcaster_id': '223285784',
    'moderator_id': '223285784'
}
data = {
    #'follower_mode': True,
    "subscriber_mode": False
}

response = requests.patch(url, headers=headers, params=params, json=data)

print(response.status_code)
print(response.json())

I want to get the tokens in this code, but the user will not enter them manually, he needs to link his account as in the picture, I wonder how to do this, for some reason I can’t find it, when I say link, the browser will open.

authorization-dialog

BarryCarlyon · April 21, 2024, 12:37pm

Assuming usign DCF Getting OAuth Access Tokens | Twitch Developers

You would

do the first dcf step
Which gives you a URL
Present the URL to the user to click or open the default browser

How to do that depends on the specifics of the frameworks or UI or window system/etc you are or are not using.

These steps are outlined in twitch_misc/authentication/electron_devicecode at main · BarryCarlyon/twitch_misc · GitHub

betali446 · April 21, 2024, 1:52pm

import requests
import json

url = 'https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/device'
client_id = 'kimne78kx3ncx6brgo4mv6wki5h1ko'
scopes = 'moderator:read:chat_settings'

data = {
    'client_id': client_id,
    'scopes': scopes
}

response = requests.post(url, data=data)

print(response.text)

response_data = json.loads(response.text)
device_code = response_data["device_code"]

while True:
    url = 'https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token'
    grant_type = 'urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:device_code'

    data = {
        'client_id': client_id,
        'scopes': scopes,
        'device_code': device_code,
        'grant_type': grant_type
    }

    response = requests.post(url, data=data)

    if response.status_code == 200:
        print("Başarılı")
        response_data = json.loads(response.text)
        access_token = response_data["access_token"]
        break
    else:
        print("hata")
        
    

url = 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/chat/settings'
headers = {
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}',
    'Client-Id': 'kimne78kx3ncx6brgo4mv6wki5h1ko',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
params = {
    'broadcaster_id': '1069820836',
    'moderator_id': '1069820836'
}
data = {
    'follower_mode': True
    #"subscriber_mode": False
}

response = requests.patch(url, headers=headers, params=params, json=data)

print(response.status_code)
print(response.json())

I did it, I get the token but when I try to put the chat in followers mode {‘error’: ‘Unauthorized’, ‘status’: 401, ‘message’: ‘Missing scope: moderator:manage:chat_settings’} I get this error scope is correct but

BarryCarlyon · April 21, 2024, 2:11pm

This isn’t your clientID. So you won’t be able to do refreshes

You need to use your own.

You only asked for read. And you need read and manage scopes

betali446 · April 21, 2024, 2:25pm

client id I wonder where to buy it

betali446 · April 21, 2024, 2:25pm

and what’s the right way to do it?

BarryCarlyon · April 21, 2024, 3:09pm

You don’t “buy them”

You can obtain your own from Twitch Developers