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I am looking through the IRC chat doc and don’t see any information on reading in host information (this this for Raids)

> @badges=turbo/1;color=#9ACD32;display-name=TestChannel;emotes=;id=3d830f12-795c-447d-af3c-ea05e40fbddb;login=testchannel;mod=0;msg-id=raid;msg-param-displayName=TestChannel;msg-param-login=testchannel;msg-param-viewerCount=15;room-id=56379257;subscriber=0;system-msg=15\sraiders\sfrom\sTestChannel\shave\sjoined\n!;tmi-sent-ts=1507246572675;tmi-sent-ts=1507246572675;turbo=1;user-id=123456;user-type= :tmi.twitch.tv USERNOTICE #othertestchannel

. Am I just blind and missing or can someone provide me the console data that is sent when a host id done for a channel.

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I think you’re looking for HOSTTARGET

3

oh, that is the information, ok, thanks. I saw this and didnt know if thats what i was supposed to use or if that was something different. I’m still new, thank you.

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Host starts message:

> :tmi.twitch.tv HOSTTARGET #hosting_channel <channel> [<number-of-viewers>]

Host stops message:

> :tmi.twitch.tv HOSTTARGET #hosting_channel :- [<number-of-viewers>]

what does the start and stop message mean? also, #hosting_channel does that mean the target channel being hosted, or is that the channel initiating the host?

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The channel initiating the host.

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ok i am trying to work with this, and I cannot get it to work at all. Is :tmi.twitch.tv HOSTTARGET #hosting_channel <channel> [<number-of-viewers>] the entire message or do I need extra things like an oauth token?

I keep getting Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

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Please post the code you are using to connect to chat and listen for commands.

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this is the code i am using to listen for host calls

hostTrigger: function (data) {

  //  if (data.includes("PRIV")) {
        
        var parts  =  data.split(' ');
        var vars = {};


        if(parts[1] === "HOSTTARGET")
        {
            if(parts[3] === ":-")
            {
                return;
            }

            else{

                var name = parts[2];
                vars.hostName = name;
                
                var quantity = parts[4];
                vars.hostAmount = quantity;
    
                sendVariables(constants.inputNames.HOST_ALERT, vars, "alert");
            }
   
    }
},
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I am confused on what message is coming in for me to listen for.

Is it: tmi.twitch.tv HOSTTARGET #lantheos :lilrex2015 0

or is it: @msg-id=host_on :tmi.twitch.tv NOTICE #lantheos :Now hosting Lilrex2015.

and how am I supposed to test it, whenever I put it in the console it returns Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

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tmi.twitch.tv HOSTTARGET #lantheos :lilrex2015 0

is default

@msg-id=host_on :tmi.twitch.tv NOTICE #lantheos :Now hosting Lilrex2015.

is if you have requested the TAGS capability

But I’d have to dig thru my code/notes to check to be sure, and I don’t bother with the HOST’s too much as the chatter count is only in the broadcasters chat for incoming hosts… And I don’t login as broadcaster ever

Looking at the docs

Host Start

> :tmi.twitch.tv HOSTTARGET #hosting_channel <channel> [<number-of-viewers>]

Host End

> :tmi.twitch.tv HOSTTARGET #hosting_channel :- [<number-of-viewers>]

With TAGS capability the additional occurs: (or may replace not sure without testing to be sure which I can’t right now)

msg-id Tags for the NOTICE Commands Capability

msg-id Message
bad_host_hosting This channel is hosting <channel>
host_off Exited host mode.
host_on Now hosting .
hosts_remaining There are host commands remaining this half hour.
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Hi Barry, I appreciate the response, but I am confused still, what message am I listening for?

When I try and use tmi.twitch.tv HOSTTARGET #lantheos :lilrex2015 0 I get no response and when I throw a sample line into the debug console all I get back is Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

12

You are trying to SEND a hosttarget to chat?

Twitch sends HOSTTARGETs as a specicial message (like how a regular message is of type PRIVMSG)

You cannot send a HOSTTARGET, twitch sends a HOSTTARGET

If you want to send a host to change the host on a given channel you just send .host TARGETCHANNEL to the channel you want to change the host of.

So if I want to use my bot to change hosts on my channel to cohhcarnage

BarryCarlyonBot would send a PRIVMSG of .host cohhcarnage to the channel barrycarlyon

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so can you give me an example of what that will look like when i pass it to the console.

Im still really new to programming and JS, so a lot of this is hard for me to wrap my head around.

14

I don’t understand what you are actually trying to do…

15

I am trying to make an alert trigger when a channel gets a host from another channel.

I have set up subscribers, follows and all the others. But since hosts apparently do not come in the same way

@badges=turbo/1;color=#9ACD32;display-name=TestChannel;emotes=;id=3d830f12-795c-447d-af3c-ea05e40fbddb;login=testchannel;mod=0;msg-id=raid;msg-param-displayName=TestChannel;msg-param-login=testchannel;msg-param-viewerCount=15;room-id=56379257;subscriber=0;system-msg=15\sraiders\sfrom\sTestChannel\shave\sjoined\n!;tmi-sent-ts=1507246572675;tmi-sent-ts=1507246572675;turbo=1;user-id=123456;user-type= :tmi.twitch.tv USERNOTICE #othertestchannel


this way, I am having trouble understanding what message I am listening for, and bc of that, I am confused on how I can test to see if I am capturing the right message
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You want inbound raids or inbound hosts or both?

You’ve asked about hosts and posted an example message about raids. Raids and hosts are two separate slightly connected things…

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I want hosts, I was using raids to see if I could capture host data the same way. But from the responses I have been getting I guess not.

Ill break it down and hopefully I explain this right (please forgive me)

I want a host alert, I looked over the doc and I see HOSTTARTGET and a chat command , I have no idea which one is which, nor what either one does. I simply want to listen for when a channel hosts me and trigger an alert.

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Inbound hosts are undocumented and I don’t have an example payload as I don’t login to chat as the broadcaster ever

For hosts I poke this API

http://tmi.twitch.tv/hosts?include_logins=1&target=USERID

or

https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/USERID/hosts

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why?

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I’ve never had a broadcaster grant me a chat login scope for their account for security reasons…