Update to Python 3.9.1

[RikiRC]

I have made few changes to made it work with Python 3.9.1 and updated API request.

[Coincident]

Thank you @RikiRC for the changes. Now the bot runs with the latest version of Python.
However, it never connects. I just get a message saying:
"Connecting to irc.chat.twitch.tv on port 6667..."
and nothing happens for hours.
Is this working for anyone else?

[RikiRC]

Hi @Coincident, I have tested it again and it works ok for me.
Can you double check the parameters that you are providing for chatbot.py? Especially OAuth token, because you need to provide this parameter without oauth: prefix e.g.:

Sometimes this bot can't connect first try, so sometimes you have to restart it few times. But if it is connected to irc channel then you see message:
Joining #channel_name
Joined #channel_name

Also bot sends message to twitch chat when connected:

[Coincident]

Hello. Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I've double-checked. I do not have the "oauth:" prefix in the token string, I've removed it before. I tried starting & stopping the bot multiple times, it never works.

Also, there seems to be an error on line 22: 853f956#diff-ce7c8a3a3f07f8572f7bb29f6313e8feb4a61d0082a8555fcee60ca6aca2cba6L22
This:
url = 'https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/users?login=' + channel
Should be this instead:
url = 'https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/users?login=' + username

Otherwise the bot will only work if channel == username; which means you're using your own Twitch account as the login for the bot. In my case I have made a separate account for the bot, so I had to change the line.
Anyway, even with that fix the bot never connects, no matter how long I wait / how often I restart.

Edit: Nevermind. This is incorrect. There is no error on line 22.

[erwan-b]

Thanks work very well ! 👌

[Coincident]

Sorry about the last message; that was a big confusion on my behalf. I reverted the changes to the code and somehow the bot connected this time. I had tried this before and it didn't work. No idea what I did different this time...
Now I consistently get the two messages:
Joining #channel_name
Joined #channel_name

But the bot never responds to any comments or messages, and I never see the "'Received command: ' + cmd" print. The "Connected!" message does not appear at first; it only appears if I use my actual browser to login with the bot's Twitch account and manually join the channel. But even like that, the bot does not respond to commands.

[Coincident]

Hello again, after several hours of experimenting and researching, I found the culprit of the problem: "channel" has to be entirely in lower-case!

https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/python-bot-irc-problem-just-asking-for-explanation/30123

Now the bot finally works!

[Coincident]

@RikiRC awesome. That last commit will prevent the next people who try this to run into the same lower-case problem.

I would also recommend another change to prevent more problems:

• checking if token starts with "oauth:", and if so, truncate the first 6 characters of the string.

[erwan-b]

You can use super(). To make it more readable