twitchit

Twitchit is a Twitch streamer status indicator for subreddits. Twitchit polls the Twitch API for users in your whitelist and updates your subreddit's markdown (sidebar) when a whitelisted user's status has changed.

Example

Setup Instructions

• git clone https://github.com/jensechu/twitchit.git
• cd twitchit
• touch .env
• Edit .env

USERNAME="REDDIT_USERNAME"
PASSWORD="REDDIT_PASSWORD"
TWITCH_ID="TWITCH_API_KEY"
SUBREDDIT="SUBREDDIT"

• bundle install
• Edit whitelist.txt to have a list of valid twitch users
• Edit template.md to have the master copy of your subreddit markdown
• Edit template.md with twitchit(TWITCH_USER) where you want the online/offline indicators to be for each user
• Run ruby twitchit.rb
• Create CRON job to run every minute

#min hour day month weekday command
*/1   *    *    *    *     ruby twitchit.rb

Online Twitch Stream

Generated Markdown

* [TWITCH_USER](http://www.twitch.tv/TWITCH_USER 'twitch-online') 
  *playing Grand Theft Auto V*

Custom CSS

a[title="twitch-online"] {
 CUSTOM ONLINE STYLES
}

Offline Twitch Stream

Generated Markdown

* [TWITCH_USER](http://www.twitch.tv/TWITCH_USER 'twitch-offline')

Custom CSS

a[title="twitch-offline"] {
 CUSTOM OFFLINE STYLES
}