ilotterytea's redpilled bot

A feature-rich chatbot for Twitch. It is written in C++17 and uses the Twitch API/IRC custom library.

The bot in real action can be seen at https://twitch.tv/teabot

Features

• Notifications when a stream starts or ends
• Massping chatters
• Timer
• Custom commands
• Listening for commit updates in GitHub repositories

Prerequisites

• C++ compiler
• PostgreSQL

Dependencies

Bot

• ixwebsocket for Twitch connections
• pqxx for databases
• cpr for HTTP requests
• nlohmann/json for JSON data deserialization

Web

• CrowCpp for creating a simple web server (requires asio library)
• Maddy for MarkDown parsing

Installation Guide

1. Clone the Git repository

git clone https://github.com/ilotterytea/bot.git
cd bot

2. Run the SQL migrations

All SQL migrations are located in the corresponding /migrations folder.

You can run all up.sql in sequence yourself or you can use a special program created for this purpose and run the related command:

sqlm run --db-name DB_NAME --db-user DB_USER --db-pass DB_PASS

3. Build the project

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DUSE_TLS=1 ..
make

4. Create the configuration file

The configuration file is in KEY=VALUE format.
Here's example of .env file with required parameters. This file should be along with compiled executable.

db_name=DB_NAME
db_user=DB_USER
db_pass=DB_PASS
twitch.client_id=CLIENT_ID
twitch.token=TOKEN

5. Launch

• Launch bot: ./redpilledbot
• Start the web server: ./redpilledweb