ErrReconnect without additional information

[happsie]

Hello!

Not sure if I'm not understanding at all, but this is my code I am trying to use to connect to twitch IRC using this library.

func (ti *TwitchIRC) StartIRC(channels []string) error {
    if ti.client != nil {
        return nil
    }
    ti.client = twitch.NewClient(username, token)
    ti.client.OnConnect(ti.onConnect)
    ti.client.OnPrivateMessage(ti.onPrivateMessage)
    ti.client.Join(channels...)
    err := ti.client.Connect()
    if err != nil {
        ti.container.GetLogger().Error("error connecting to IRC", err)
        return err
    }
    return nil
}

func (ti *TwitchIRC) onConnect() {
    ti.container.GetLogger().Info("connected!")
}

func (ti *TwitchIRC) onPrivateMessage(message twitch.PrivateMessage) {
    ti.container.GetLogger().Info(message.Message)
}

After some debugging, I see that I constantly hit the error reconnect. I am however not sure why and don't see any errors. Is there something I'm missing?

[pajlada]

The error with the string "reconnect" is an internal error that should never be returned to you as a user See https://github.com/gempir/go-twitch-irc/blob/master/client.go#L717-L727 where errReconnect should be caught and not returned

Your code looks good, that's basically what the readme & the cmd/pingpong/pingpong.go example looks like

Common disconnects happen due to bad tokens, could you try connecting anonymously for now? basically ti.client = twitch.NewClient("justinfan123456", "oauth:123123123")

[happsie]

Thanks for your reply!

Seems like anonymous client works fine. What format should the token be in? I currently have it as oauth:bearer token. Having it as oauth:token gives login authentication failed

[pajlada]

It must be oauth:abc123 where abc123 is your User Access Token that has chat reading (and optionally writing) permissions

[pajlada]

The flow I use for my bots is: Use an Authorization code grant flow, sign into my website with the bot account. That forwards my browser to web server/bot service, it then uses the authorization code to get a User Access Token (access_token in the response), and a Refresh Code (refresh_code in the response). The User Access Token is used to connect to chat, and the Refresh Code is used to refresh the User Access Token when it has expired.

[happsie]

Thank you!

Was a permissions problem, did not think of adding them as scopes :D