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Bots Bots Bots: Building Chatbots

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Twitch Developers
Twitch Developers

Chatbots are an awesome way to interact with the Twitch audience. From voting to controlling games, the chat is the most common engagement mechanism in the Twitch steamer’s page. In this session, we covered best practices of building delightful bots and connecting bots to other interactive elements at Twitch, such as Extensions.

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Author of Designing Bots @ashevat Amir Shevat
 VP of Developer Experience
Bots, Bots, Bots: Building Chatbots
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Bot why?
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California What are Chatbots? A user interface (UI) that uses messaging as a medium of interaction Twitch chat is a great canvas for your UI 16 Billion Chat Messages sent in 2017
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California -Chat is the most common form of audience interaction on Twitch -Chatbots are simple to build and can be very useful -Chatbots can integrate with other technologies, such as Extensions -They solve simple and important issues for streamers, like answering “what is your gear?” or “what is the game you are playing?” Why Twitch Chatbots are Awesome BOT WHY?
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Bot Use 
 Case STREAMER TOOL BOTS
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Bot Use 
 Case STREAMER TOOL BOTS
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Bot Use 
 Case STREAMER TOOL BOTS Loyalty, stream-integrated
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Bot Use 
 Case STREAMER TOOL BOTS Loyalty, stream-integrated
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Building a Bot
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Client Client Your Chatbot Server IRC over Websocket / TCP Twitch IRC Servers Client Magic Bot Anatomy High-level Architecture BUILDING A BOT
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Authentication 1. Streamers add your chatbot to their channel through an OAuth flow 2. You must request a token with the chat_login scope 3. You get an OAuth token to connect to the channel 4.Keep your OAuth in a safe place!
Bots Bots Bots: Building Chatbots
Bots Bots Bots: Building Chatbots
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California 1. Twitch is fast paced; do not spam 2. Do not expect a conversation; build shot and stateless commands 3. Use ! or / prefix for commands 4.Great way to collect contextual inputs Better Bots BUILDING BOTS
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Coming Soon to a Bot Near You
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Panel / Video Extension Twitch Server HTTP API Call Chat Message Magic The Future is Here Connecting Extensions to Chat COMING SOON
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Panel / Video Extension (Javascript Event Called) Twitch Server HTTP API Call Chat Message Magic The Future is Here Connecting Extensions to Chat COMING SOON
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Future of 
 Games COMING SOON
TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Future of 
 Games COMING SOON
Steve Filby
 Marketing Manager, Motion Twin
Bots Bots Bots: Building Chatbots
Bots Bots Bots: Building Chatbots
- Build useful chatbots for streamers - Connect chatbots to a full experience via Extensions - Connect chatbots to your gameplay; humans are the best NPCs - Remix my chatbot: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/twitch-bot-super-simple We hope you’re all Bot in :)
Questions?
Learn More Documentation: https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/irc Forums: https://discuss.twitch.tv/ Twitter: @TwitchDev, @ashevat

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Bots Bots Bots: Building Chatbots

  • 1. Author of Designing Bots @ashevat Amir Shevat
 VP of Developer Experience
  • 2. Bots, Bots, Bots: Building Chatbots
  • 3. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Bot why?
  • 4. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California What are Chatbots? A user interface (UI) that uses messaging as a medium of interaction Twitch chat is a great canvas for your UI 16 Billion Chat Messages sent in 2017
  • 5. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California -Chat is the most common form of audience interaction on Twitch -Chatbots are simple to build and can be very useful -Chatbots can integrate with other technologies, such as Extensions -They solve simple and important issues for streamers, like answering “what is your gear?” or “what is the game you are playing?” Why Twitch Chatbots are Awesome BOT WHY?
  • 6. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Bot Use 
 Case STREAMER TOOL BOTS
  • 7. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Bot Use 
 Case STREAMER TOOL BOTS
  • 8. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Bot Use 
 Case STREAMER TOOL BOTS Loyalty, stream-integrated
  • 9. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Bot Use 
 Case STREAMER TOOL BOTS Loyalty, stream-integrated
  • 10. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Building a Bot
  • 11. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Client Client Your Chatbot Server IRC over Websocket / TCP Twitch IRC Servers Client Magic Bot Anatomy High-level Architecture BUILDING A BOT
  • 12. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Authentication 1. Streamers add your chatbot to their channel through an OAuth flow 2. You must request a token with the chat_login scope 3. You get an OAuth token to connect to the channel 4.Keep your OAuth in a safe place!
  • 15. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California 1. Twitch is fast paced; do not spam 2. Do not expect a conversation; build shot and stateless commands 3. Use ! or / prefix for commands 4.Great way to collect contextual inputs Better Bots BUILDING BOTS
  • 16. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Coming Soon to a Bot Near You
  • 17. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Panel / Video Extension Twitch Server HTTP API Call Chat Message Magic The Future is Here Connecting Extensions to Chat COMING SOON
  • 18. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Panel / Video Extension (Javascript Event Called) Twitch Server HTTP API Call Chat Message Magic The Future is Here Connecting Extensions to Chat COMING SOON
  • 19. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Future of 
 Games COMING SOON
  • 20. TwitchCon 2018 San Jose, California Future of 
 Games COMING SOON
  • 24. - Build useful chatbots for streamers - Connect chatbots to a full experience via Extensions - Connect chatbots to your gameplay; humans are the best NPCs - Remix my chatbot: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/twitch-bot-super-simple We hope you’re all Bot in :)