Support for advanced Twitch API stuff

joshuaskelly / twitch-observer

Turn Twitch chatter into Python events

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Support for advanced Twitch API stuff #52

Closed PythooonUser closed 7 years ago

PythooonUser commented 7 years ago

Summary

We should add some features of the Twitch API that are (in)directly related to chat. Those include:

[x] check for a user to be a follower
[x] check for a user to be a subscriber (is this already shown in the tags attribute of an event? Needs verification to be working. Requires an application ID)

Those information are currently not fetched by the IRC stuff.

PythooonUser commented 7 years ago

What do you think @joshuaskelly? Is this something worth implementing? If so, what do you think about the current implementation in features/advanced-twitch-api-support?

PythooonUser commented 7 years ago

I am aware of the fact, that urllib.request is not available in Python2, as our buddy Travis points out. It should be replaced by the appropiate call in urllib2 instead.

joshuaskelly commented 7 years ago

I think that is getting outside of the scope for twitchobserver. :worried: I think requiring a user to register their app with Twitch to get an AppID is too onerous. I think our simplicity is our strength.

I'm fairly confident there exist Python API's to handle this.

PythooonUser commented 7 years ago

Yeah, I guess your're right. Besides that, one can check for a user to be a subscriber by looking at the tags component. For followers one can keep a seperated list.