Server is not accepting WebSocket connections. Reconnecting in 10 seconds

[macharborguy]

Not sure what happened, but about a day or so ago, our bot started reporting "Server is not accepting WebSocket connections. Reconnecting in 10 seconds" and is no longer able to connect to Twitch IRC.

Has anything happened with the Twitch IRC systems that is just not playing nice with TMI.js?

I have checked the oauth keys that I use for our Bot account and Primary account, as well as regenerated them, and they are still unable to connect.

[AlcaDesign]

I think they're changing servers or something. Have a look at TwitchStatus.com

[Schmoopiie]

https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/notice-of-upcoming-changes-websockets-and-secure-connections/2269/24

I'm trying to keep them up to date on our API but as far as I know, the group chat servers don't have any websocket servers listed on the Twitch API at this time.

[celluj34]

If there were only an API for available chat, event, and group servers...

[AlcaDesign]

There's the chat_properties endpoint, but not quite what we need .. Also, looking at that, anyone know what "..._pct" is?

[Schmoopiie]

They are but for the group chat servers you need an oauth_token, this is why I prefer to have a custom API 😄

http://chatdepot.twitch.tv/room_memberships?oauth_token=YOUR_TOKEN

[Schmoopiie]

There is http://tmi.twitch.tv/servers?cluster=group but I don't know if it's reliable.. some servers are listed there and aren't on the other endpoint..

[AlcaDesign]

How do you know of these endpoints?

[Schmoopiie]

I have no life sorry :(

[AlcaDesign]

Are they in some discussions some places or do you just guess around?

[Schmoopiie]

I use the Network tool (CTRL+SHIFT+J and click Network) from Chrome and check what API endpoint is being used when browsing Twitch

[AlcaDesign]

They need to unify their APIs and crap .. How does anyone keep track? Also, you should tell me everything you know.

[macharborguy]

thanks for the info, i restarted our bot and it was able to get back into the server. ill keep an eye on our log file just in case things go down again. and thanks as well for the twitch stats website link!

and yeah, their API all over has holes in it. still cannot believe they wont let you get more than the most recent 1600 follower names. now i have to check each and every chat user who logs into our channel and see if they are following or not so i can give their name in our chat widget a special follower icon.

[Schmoopiie]

No idea, but as far as I know, tmi.twitch.tv is always subject to change so we cannot rely on these endpoints.. that is why I'm working on my own API for tmi.js, anyways, I have to go to work now, see you guys tomorrow 😄

[AlcaDesign]

Have fun on the night-shift

[xhip]

I backup "servers.js" and removed all the "off" servers, looks like a temporary fix for now... the only "ws_irc" online is "192.16.64.205 (Port 80)" but thing may change...

[Schmoopiie]

I will close this issue because it is fixed, I will keep an eye on their websocket servers this weekend just in case they are doing some IP rotations.

@xhip You shouldn't have to do this actually, the library queries http://www.tmijs.org/api/servers/ to update the hardcoded servers and if for some reasons our API doesn't work, then it's going to use the default hardcoded servers. It wasn't working before because the API wasn't updated with the new servers, but now everything should be okay 😄

If you guys see some changes before I do, reply in this issue and I will reopen it.

Thanks!