LoyaltyBot

A TwitchTV viewer reward system

Written in JavaScript and Node

Overview

LoyaltyBot is a chat bot that allows you to reward viewers with loyalty points for hanging out on your stream. It's main purpose is to allow you, the broadcaster, to reward the viewers that are dedicated to watching your stream as opposed to the viewers that just stop by for a quick giveaway and leave.

####Features

Fully functioning auction and raffle systems
Double loyalty points for subscribers/loyal viewers

####Extras

Moderator commands (currently in development, semi functional)

####Future Features/Extras

Free subscriber/paid non-subscriber Jukebox (still in development)
Stream title updates posted to twitter (still in development)

Basic Setup

example.js

var loyaltybot = require('./../lib/initialize.js');

loyaltybot.initialize({
    // twitch info
    twitch : {
        channel     : 'loyalty',
        bot         : {name: 'LoyaltyBot', password: 'loyalty!loyalty!loyalty!'},
        subscribers : 'https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/****/od6/public/basic?alt=json'
    },

    // currency info
    currency : {
        name     : 'Points',
        payrate  : 15,
        host     : '127.0.0.1',
        user     : 'mysql_user',
        password : 'mysql_password',
        database : 'mysql_database',
        website  : 'http://www.loyaltypoints.com'
    },

    // optional features
    commands: true
});

Configuration Options

Twitch

channel: the channel name (in lower case)
bot.name: the account name of the bot
bot.password: the password for the bot
subscribers: a google doc that contains subscriber names (more info on this later)

Currency

name: custom name for the loyalty points
payrate: how often to hand out loyalty points (in minutes)
host: mysql database hostname/ip
user: username for the mysql database
password: password for the mysql database
database: mysql database name
website: provides loyalty bot with an offsite location for checking currency. can also be and be an empty string

Optional

commands: enable/disable the ability to use moderator commands. boolean: accepts true or false

Preparing to Setup Your Channel's Bot

####Create a new bot account

In order to use LoyaltyBot's features you will need to create a new TwitchTV Account. You can name it anything you wish, all you need to do is pass the username/password to bot.name and bot.password

####Create the subscriber/loyal viewer list on Google Docs

Since TwitchTV does not have subscriber information in their api, LoyaltyBot needs a way to obtain that information. That's where Google Docs comes in.

In the following order:

Create a new spreadsheet
Set cell A1 as the header "Username"
Subscriber names (must be lower case) will then be in column A starting in cell A2 and below (Fig. 1)
Set the subscriber list to public and change the type to json (Fig. 2)

Side Notes:

Even if you do not have a subscription button, you can still add loyal viewers to this list for the double loyalty point benefits.
Why Google Docs and not the MySQL database? Simplicity. It's easier to manually update a google doc spreadsheet daily then it is to update a MySQL table.

Figure 1:

Figure 2:

####Setting up MySQL tables

LoyaltyBot stores all of the viewer info and moderator commands in a MySQL database and requires specifc table/field names.

LoyaltyBot takes care of all table creation, however if by some chance you need to manually setup the tables the following contains information about them:

Viewer

Table Name: viewers
Field Names: user [primary key, not null, varchar], points [not null, integer]

Commands

Table Name: commands
Field Names: id [primary key, autoincrement, not null, integer], command [not null, text], text [not null, longtext], auth [default: 1, integer]

LoyaltyBot In Action

ArcherBot - Chiffre2435
CookieMonsterBot - Minerva_dh
InternetBot - Izlsnizzt
KarmaBot - itsfabiotime
Knowledge_Bot - Illicitmedia
XBucksBot - Linexnick

If you're using LoyaltyBot send me a twitch message so I can add you to this list!