Another noob trying to get his bot named

[zoratheardent]

Hi,

I understand bot name questions get asked a lot, but I couldn’t find my scenario.

I have two accounts, one main and one bot account. I followed these steps:
1 I created an application on my bot twitch account.
2 I took the client ID from that application to use with my oauth call to https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/authorize
3 I used the access_token I get back (after allowing access to my main account)
4 I run my bot, it connects properly
5 The username for the bot is still my main account username
(I do see my bot’s name on my main account under settings -> connections)

My auth url for getting the bot access_token:
https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/authorize?client_id=${this.botClientID}&redirect_uri=http://localhost:3000/botAuth&response_type=token&scope=${this.scope}

If someone would be so kind to enlighten me I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance

[BarryCarlyon]

A bot account is the same as a user account.

So you just need to go thru the oAuth flow whilst logged in to your bot account. Rather than going thru the oAuth flow as you.

[zoratheardent]

Barry, you legend you.

I was running my bot through the same browser my main account was logged into. When I ran it via an incognito window it worked.

Follow up question is then, how do I get permissions for it to actually moderate my main account channel? It doesn’t seem to have permission currently. Even though it’s visible under my connections and I called the oath with scope chat:read+chat:edit+channel:moderate.

[zoratheardent]

I found it. Mark the bod as a moderator on your main profile.

Thanks again Barry.