BOT read messages but cannot send messages

[Wei_Chi_Lin]

import socket, string
 
HOST = "irc.twitch.tv"
NICK = "FrostyBOT"
PORT = 6667
PASS = "oauth:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
readbuffer = ""
MODT = False
 
s = socket.socket()
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
s.send("PASS " + PASS + "\r\n")
s.send("NICK " + NICK + "\r\n")
s.send("JOIN #thefrosty0806 \r\n") 
 
def Send_message(message):
    s.send("PRIVMSG #thefrosty0806 :" + message + "\r\n")
 
 
while True:
    readbuffer = readbuffer + s.recv(1024)
    temp = string.split(readbuffer, "\n")
    readbuffer = temp.pop()
 
    for line in temp:
        if (line[0] == "PING"):
            s.send("PONG %s\r\n" % line[1])
        else:
            parts = string.split(line, ":")
 
            if "QUIT" not in parts[1] and "JOIN" not in parts[1] and "PART" not in parts[1]:
                try:
                    # Sets the message variable to the actual message sent
                    message = ':'.join(parts[2:])
                except:
                    message = ""
                usernamesplit = string.split(parts[1], "!")
                username = usernamesplit[0]
               
                if MODT:
                    print username + ': ' +message
                   
                    if message == "Hey":
                        Send_message('Welcome to my stream, ' + username)
 
                for l in parts:
                    if "End of /NAMES list" in l:
                        MODT = True

I am having trouble with making the BOT send messages to the chat. Any reasons why this might be happening? It reads the variable “message”.

[BarryCarlyon]

Does your oauth token include all the relevant scopes? Sounds like you requested only chat:read

When you get your token, you must specify scopes (the permissions you are allowed on behalf of the authorized Twitch user). In this example, you need a token with the chat:read and chat:edit scopes.

as per

Chat & Chatbots

[Wei_Chi_Lin]

I believe it does, I wrote two different versions of this BOT. (2nd version below)

import socket, string, re
 
HOST = "irc.twitch.tv"
NICK = "FrostyBOT"
PORT = 6667
PASS = "oauth:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
readbuffer = ""
MODT = False
 
s = socket.socket()
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
s.send("PASS " + PASS + "\r\n")
s.send("NICK " + NICK + "\r\n")
s.send("JOIN #thefrosty0806 \r\n")
 

def Send_message(message):
    s.send("PRIVMSG #thefrosty0806 :" + message + "\r\n")
 
 
while True:
    readbuffer = readbuffer + s.recv(1024)
    temp = string.split(readbuffer, "\n")
    readbuffer = temp.pop()
 
    for line in temp:
        # Checks whether the message is PING because its a method of Twitch to check if you're afk
        if (line[0] == "PING"):
            s.send("PONG %s\r\n" % line[1])
        else:
            # Splits the given string to work with it better
            parts = string.split(line, ":")
 
            if "QUIT" not in parts[1] and "JOIN" not in parts[1] and "PART" not in parts[1]:
                try:
                    message = parts[2][:len(parts[2]) - 1]
                except:
                    message = ""
                usernamesplit = string.split(parts[1], "!")
                username = usernamesplit[0]
                if MODT:
                    print username + ": " + message
                   
                    #Adding Plain Commands
                    if message == "!bot":
                        Send_message("This is a BOT to for my seminar class")
                        
 
                for l in parts:
                    if "End of /NAMES list" in l:
                        MODT = True

The only thing I changed in version 2 was
message = parts[2][:len(parts[2]) - 1]

this works, but it cannot read inputs such as https://google.com (anything that comes after “http” it wont read)
but this version sends message just fine.

[BarryCarlyon]

The issue is your

@Wei_Chi_Lin

parts = string.split(line, “:”)

Which is splitting around the : in https:// of the URL in the example your provided…

You can either fix this so it’s only splitting once, or you need to look at using a “proper” IRC Tokeniser to “more correctly” parse a incoming Raw IRC line. You’ll probably need this anyway, as if you look at doing more complex stuff with Twitch Chat, you’ll enable Commands and Tags. Which’ll include more : in the raw line

[Wei_Chi_Lin]

I believe that part of the code doesn’t split the inputs of the user but rather the structure of the chat.
Username: "whatever the user writes*
So its splitting Username and "whatever the user writes.