So I’m looking to create a multi-channel bot, and I have some basic questions: In developing IRC bots before, I’ve found that most networks throttle outbound messages. So for example, if you wanted to make a bot that greeted users as they came in the channel, you would be fine as long as X users …

All depends on your personal choice of programming language. For java I could recommend https://code.google.com/p/pircbotx/

In regards to my first question, I was able to dig this up from the Twitch API: If you send more than 20 commands or messages to the server within a 30 second period, you will get locked out for 8 hours automatically. These are not lifted so please be careful when working with IRC! How on earth …

When the bot is a mod in the channel, it can do 100 messages per 30 seconds. More info: [image] Twitch Chat (from a Twitch Dev) Chat and IRC I have some things I’m wondering about regarding the rate limits for chat. If you s…

[image] jreyes: When the bot is a mod in the channel, it can do 100 messages per 30 seconds. More info: Twitch Chat (from a Twitch Dev) - #3 by Sunspots - Chat and IRC - Twitch Developer Forums Okay, so this is really only accurate if your bot is running in a single channel. Per that same th…

[image] Brandon: From the looks of it, multi-channel bots solve this with multiple connections. That is a bit mind boggling, but perhaps there is a reason behind it that I’m missing. [image] Twitch Chat (from a Twitch Dev) This is an artifact of this code originally being written with the …

I’m pretty sure that some of the larger bots don’t necessarily use the same connection for reading and writing to a single room. Since you can write to any room from any connection, a load-balancing system could spread out all messages on all connections, which means if one room exceeds the message…

[image] Sunspots: Sending to rooms that the connection is not joined in would mean that you have to store mod status somewhere for each channel in order to use the 100-cap and not hit the 30-cap for any one connection. If I made a really large bot, I think I would build it as a cluster of conne…

My guess is you would only need a bunch of sockets, not threads or program instances. Keep track of the load on each socket and distribute it accordingly. For my current single outgoing socket implementation I keep a list of the timestamp on each sent message. When a timestamp is older than 30 seco…

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When the bot is a mod in the channel, it can do 100 messages per 30 seconds. More info:

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