# Help regarding a new developer application **URL:** \ **Category:** API\ **Created:** [January 30, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/help-regarding-a-new-developer-application/9072 "2017-01-30T05:11:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ifohancroft](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/ifohancroft/32/2434_2.png) [@ifohancroft](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/ifohancroft)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/help-regarding-a-new-developer-application/9072/1 "2017-01-30T05:11:23Z")
Hello, I am trying to create my own chat bot but I am having problems with a few things even before starting to code it. I have read the documentation and I have checked a few threads on here but I couldn’t find the answers. 1. I want the chat bot to use a different nickname, not my own. Do i have to make a second Twitch account and register the application under it? If yes - what do I do with the application I have already registered under my account? May I get it deleted? If no - Do I use the application created under my own account and make a separate Twitch account that will be the bot, log in to it, go to the application url and authenticate it so the application can use it as the bot? 2. I am making the both for my own channel during my stream. Why do I need to specify a URL? 3. Can I make the url inaccessible for anyone but me so I can authorize myself there so my bot can use the account I’ve made for it or can I just leave the url for the application to localhost when the application is already in production? I mean is this allowed by Twitch? Any answers and help are very much needed and will be greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_thomas](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/matt_thomas/32/710_2.png) [@matt\_thomas](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/matt_thomas)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/help-regarding-a-new-developer-application/9072/2 "2017-01-30T06:02:58Z")
> [@ifohancroft](#): > > Hello, > > I am trying to create my own chat bot but I am having problems with a few things even before starting to code it. > I have read the documentation and I have checked a few threads on here but I couldn’t find the answers. > > I want the chat bot to use a different nickname, not my own. > Do i have to make a second Twitch account and register the application under it? If you are making the application to have a client ID to make queries to the API, you can leave it under your account and just use the client ID during the bot’s queries. The bot can be a different account. > [@ifohancroft](#): > > I am making the both for my own channel during my stream. Why do I need to specify a URL? This is for web based applications, you can leave it as something like your twitch page just as a filler, you can change it later if needed. For a chat bot with no web interface it isn’t really needed. > [@ifohancroft](#): > > Can I make the url inaccessible for anyone but me so I can authorize myself there so my bot can > use the account I’ve made for it or can I just leave the url for the application to localhost when the application > is already in production? I mean is this allowed by Twitch? You can make your own application to request a chat token as a specific user, or you can use something like: [Twitch Chat Password Generator](https://twitchapps.com/tmi/) and use your bot credentials to get it’s “chat oauth” with scope=chat\_login The URL it just where the user would be redirected to after authentication. If you make a web app just to generate a chat\_login oauth then where it redirects you to is trivial. ---
**Author:** ![3ventic](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/3ventic/32/298_2.png) [@3ventic](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/3ventic)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/help-regarding-a-new-developer-application/9072/3 "2017-01-30T06:03:56Z")
You should register your applications under your main account. How you get the oauth token for your bot is up to you. Redirect urls can be private. ---
**Author:** ![ifohancroft](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/ifohancroft/32/2434_2.png) [@ifohancroft](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/ifohancroft)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/help-regarding-a-new-developer-application/9072/4 "2017-01-30T06:07:27Z")
Thank you very much for the helpful answers. I should have probably started with the following: Am I required to register an application to write and use my own bot? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://d2opxh93rbxzdn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/help-regarding-a-new-developer-application/9072/5 "2017-03-01T06:07:35Z")
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