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popcorncolonel / TwitchBotDetector

Bot Detector Bot's source code
http://twitter.com/botdetectorbot
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Consider hosts #10

Closed hobbldygoop closed 7 years ago

hobbldygoop commented 7 years ago

I've been curious about detecting viewbotters for a while and made some scripts for that and just saw your twitter and found it very interesting, so I checked a few of the streams you note as being viewbotted, and the first one with message almost definitely has a false-viewer bot (~626 extra viewers of 654 total) looked sketchy until I saw that he was being hosted by a big partnered streamer that had 700 people in his chat, so based on that I would assume there's a pretty good chance he's actually not viewbotting.

Aren't you getting a huge amount of false positives without including hosts in your tool?

There is a public API to see who's hosting a channel https://tmi.twitch.tv/hosts?include_logins=1&target=[channel_id] (needs an extra request to get the ID of a channel first).

popcorncolonel commented 7 years ago

Did not know about this endpoint, but thanks! Very helpful!

I'll try to do that this weekend.

popcorncolonel commented 7 years ago

Done!