Chat bot not posting unless its a moderator

[BarryCarlyon]

@markzorn

Gotcha on the follow. At one point I was calling https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users/follows successfully but that may have been a while ago.

That got removed. As of July last year

Deprecation of Create and Delete Follows API Endpoints

The Twitch API powers a diverse range of applications and use-cases. With each endpoint, we take care to ensure we are providing functionality that will help developers create tools for our creators and engaging experiences for our viewers, all to make the Twitch community strong, safe, and fun. While the ability to follow and unfollow channels with our APIs opened up novel use cases for developers, at times these APIs have also been used by bad-faith actors to harass our community and create fa…

@markzorn

Is there documentation handy for what would cause being globalled?

Exceeding the rate limits will cause this.

Chat & Chatbots

@markzorn

The chat bot does not post very frequently. However, it does post from just a small series of messages, so across all channels the messages are not very unique. Would that cause an issue?

Honestly don’t know.

Make sure to enable Tags and commands capabilities

Requesting Twitch IRC Capabilities

Then monitor for USERNOTICE and NOTICE messages which might help track down issues