PyTMI

A python library for communicating in the Twitch Messaging Interface (docs)

Why a new library

Unfortunately, I haven't found a good python library for twitch that was simple, extendable, and scalable. Good libraries exist for Javascript (tmi.js), but I haven't found something for Python.

While Python IRC libraries exist (twitch message interface is a weird IRC), most are too complicated to use, not extendable, don't support asyncio, or are for python 2.

Many of the ideas used in this library came from discord.py, a library for creating bots for discord.

Example

This is an example of the core functionality.

import pytmi

config = {
    'username': "botname",
    'password': "oauthstring",
    'channels': ["#channelname"]
}

client = pytmi.TwitchClient()

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    print("Received message")

client.run_sync(**config)

This is an example of the bot command functionality.

from pytmi.bot import TwitchBot

config = {
    'username': "botname",
    'password': "oauthstring",
    'channels': ["#channelname"]
}

client = pytmi.TwitchBot(prefix='!')

@bot.command()
async def hello(ctx):
    await ctx.reply("Hello " + ctx.author.name)

client.run_sync(**config)

More examples are available in the examples/ folder.