Reading Live Chat Messages

Chat and IRC
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Hello everyone,

I want to read the messages (chat) on a live stream. I could make it work with PHP and IRC. I’m trying to find another way, like an API, is there something available right now? ChatGPT offers some endpoints like:

$url = "https://api.twitch.tv/helix/chat/recent_messages?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID";

or

$url = "https://api.twitch.tv/helix/channels/events?broadcaster_id=$channel_id&type=chat_message&first=100";

But I cannot find the documentation.

Any advice or comments?

Thanks in advance.

Mauricio

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chatGPT seems to have just made shit up here…

You want IRC or EventSub

EventSub gives you Webhooks or Websockets.
And well IRC is websockets anyway

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Hi @BarryCarlyon, thanks for your answer!

I will take a look at the documentation but seems that the IRC integration already have is one of the suggested solutions.

May I ask, if you have something to share, right now I ave a PHP file with a “while” loop listening to the messages. I run fo testing in the command line and I get the messages on the console.

Is there any “architecture” or “solution” to handle this kind of process that needs to be running all the time in the background? Because I probably need to listen to different channels at the same time.

No sure how to google it.

Thanks again for you time.
Mauricio

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back when I did my bots on PHP I use a library called smartIRC.

Your problem isn’t “how do I run a twitch chat bot on PHP” it’s “how do I run an IRC bot using PHP”

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