Grabbing a single message from chat

[LadyLag]

I’m trying to set up a chat box on my stream that will randomly pick one message from all the messages received in the last 60 seconds (if any) and display it on my stream.

I know there are chatbots out there with a lot of functionality - maybe one of them could mirror a message every 60 seconds or so to a second chat room and I could display that?

Any other ideas or suggestions on how I might do something like this?

[jctrvlr]

Not sure if you’re asking if something exists or how one would go about doing it but to steer you in the right direction, the simplest/fastest way possible would be to use NodeJS, and the tmi.js Library.

After you setup the library and listen to the channel you want to it’s as simple as:

let messArray = [];

client.on("chat", function (channel, userstate, message, self) {
  // Don't listen to my own messages..
  if (self) return;
  messArray.push({user: userstate.username, mess: message});
});

var _resetInterval = setInterval(() => {
  setMessage();
}, 60000);

function setMessage() {
  let ranNum = Math.floor(Math.random() * messArray.length);
  let selUser = messArray[ranNum].user; // Save selected user in var
  let selMess = messArray[ranNum].mess; // Save selected mess in var
  this.messArray = []; // Clear array
  console.log(selUser + " " + selMess);
  // Now do whatever you want with the message and user of message stored in vars
}

Again not entirely sure what you were looking for but cheers!

[LadyLag]

Hey thanks so much. I was completely lost when I posted this but thanks to your post and a little trial and error I was able to use this to create my own script from this that does exactly what I need. Cheers =)