Python bot that send message when someone starts streaming

API
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Hi I’m trying to make a discord bot that sends a message when someone starts streaming and I don’t know how to do it I just this and it does not work it says i have an error with OAuth and I don’t know how to add the OAuth token there. Could someone help me, please

import requests

API_ENDPOINT = “https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_login=jonasek369”

Client_ID = “my_client_Id”

head = {

‘cliend_id’: Client_ID,
}

r = requests.get(url = API_ENDPOINT, headers = head)

print(r.text)

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head = {

‘cliend_id’: Client_ID,
}

becomes

head = {
'client-id': Client_ID,
'authorization': 'Bearer ' + botToken
}

You also misspeltthe ClientID header

3

it says that {“error”:“Unauthorized”,“status”:401,“message”:“Client ID and OAuth token do not match”}
do i need somehow to register the token ? eather wait thanks for the replay

4

Sounds like you probably generated an oAuth token using the twitchapps TMI token generator and you didn’t use their client-ID in the call

The advice is to use your own clientID and generate your own tokens using your own oAuth flow

5

how can I make mine OAuth token? I’m working in API first time.

6

heh I misread your initial post and missed out the discord part…

Authentication is hjere

And you probably want to generate an App Access Token as documented here

7

so if i understand this i should make request something like this

requests.request("https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token?client_id=uo6dggojyb8d6soh92zknwmi5ej1q2&client_secret=REMOVED&grant_type=client_credentials")
8

Removed your client secret.
Client secretes are essentially passwords and shouldn’t be posted to a public forum

If that performs a HTTP POST Request in python then yes

9

that was the example from the documentation and thanks for the help.

10

i dont want to bother more but its giving me a respons : {“data”:[],“pagination”:{}}
and is there some way to just get the if hes streaming some extra code or something

the code now is:
import requests

API_ENDPOINT = “https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_login=jonasek369”

Client_ID = “client_id”
botToken = “token”

head = {
‘client-id’: Client_ID,
‘authorization’: 'Bearer ’ + botToken
}

r = requests.get(url = API_ENDPOINT, headers = head, )

print(r.text)

11

If the user is not live then there is no stream to return.

When they are live then the API will return some data.

12

oh yes thanks im an idiot it just needs a seconds thanks for all the respons.

13

im so sorry for bothering again but it works in the file where i test it but in the bot it just send me a
{“access_token”:“token”,“expires_in”:numbers,“token_type”:“bearer”}

@tasks.loop(seconds=10)
async def check_For_live_jonasek369(ctx):
channel = bot.get_channel(673138335614631948)
API_ENDPOINT = “https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_login=jonasek369”

Client_ID = "client_id"
botToken = "bot_token"

head = {
    'client-id': Client_ID,
    'authorization': 'Bearer ' + botToken
}

r = requests.get(url=API_ENDPOINT, headers=head, )

w = r.text

if "live" in w:
    await channel.send("@everyone jonasek369 is streaming go check him out !")
    time.sleep(1800)
else:
    print(w)
    time.sleep(1)
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That is the response you get from the token fetching endpoint.

I’m not sure what the problem is here

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eather way thanks for all responses have a great day