SongRequestBot

Homemade Music Request Bot for Twitch.tv written in Ruby

Set Up Instructions and Requirements from pre-built release

1. Set up the config.toml file per the example
2. drop youtube-dl.exe or youtube-dl linux executable into the same directory as the app and config file
3. run ./SongRequestBot in your terminal, or on windows open cmd and run SongRequestBot.exe

Set Up Instructions and Requirements when building from Source

1. Set up the config.toml file per the example
2. drop youtube-dl.exe or youtube-dl linux executable into the same directory as the app and config file (If running a debug copy by cargo run, it should still look in the same directory where Cargo.toml resides)
3. cargo run to run in debug, or cargo build --release to build a release optimized build

KNOWN BUGS - WINDOWS PLATFORM

Rust on Windows' std::process::Command library cannot handle unicode characters. Any video requested that contains unicode characters in the title will have those characters stripped. This appears to be a limitation that cannot be worked around. The Video will still play as normal in the web player. This does not affect linux.

Other Issues

If you have any issues and I happen to be streaming, feel free to ask me at http://twitch.tv/itsdefinitelyfluff if I'm live, or raise an issue here.