twitch-bot-timeout-new-accounts

This is a single-channel Twitch bot that times out accounts that have been created too recently. For example, if you only want accounts older than 7 days to be able to chat and a 3-day-old account types something, it will be timed out for 4 days.

This bot was only intended to be foundational code, so while it does what it's supposed to do, there are a lot of improvements that could be made, e.g.:

• Allow a whitelist of users so that the bot doesn't just keep timing them out.
• Allow this to work in multiple channels at a time (e.g. Nightbot).
• Persist the cache to disk so that returning chatters don't trigger additional Twitch API calls.
• Allow for dynamic configuration via chat commands.

Non-technical explanation of how to set this up

• The bot needs to be run somewhere, i.e. it's not like Nightbot where you can just add it to your channel.
• The bot can run as any user whose credentials you have. For example, if you stream as Adam13531, the bot can actually run as you, or you could make a new account altogether. It currently says a message like in this picture, but that can be manually disabled if you want it to just silently run as you.
• If you want to run it on your own computer, then you would install NodeJS and Yarn, then get the code (ZIP file here: https://github.com/Adam13531/twitch-bot-timeout-new-accounts/archive/master.zip), unzip it, then follow the installation and running instructions below.
• If you don't want to run it yourself, then you can get one of your mods to run it. This is great if they already have a server that they don't mind throwing a tiny Node process onto.
• The code is MIT-licensed, meaning anyone can modify it, use it, make money off of it, etc. without having to credit me.
• I had some free time and was happy to do what I did here, but I don't plan on maintaining this or adding new features.

Installation

1. Make sure you have Node and Yarn on your system.
2. yarn
3. Set environment variables for OAUTH, CLIENT_ID, CHANNEL_NAME (do not include a # character in this), and USER_NAME.

Running / configuration

Run via yarn start.

The threshold in days before an account is allowed to chat is hard-coded as numDaysBeforeBeingAllowedToChat in main.js.

Running with docker-compose

1. Open the file docker-compose.yml.
2. Edit the environment section with your own values.
3. Run docker-compose up --build.