Help regarding a new developer application

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Hello,

I am trying to create my own chat bot but I am having problems with a few things even before starting to code it.
I have read the documentation and I have checked a few threads on here but I couldn’t find the answers.

  1. I want the chat bot to use a different nickname, not my own.
    Do i have to make a second Twitch account and register the application under it?
    If yes - what do I do with the application I have already registered under my account? May I get it deleted?
    If no - Do I use the application created under my own account and make a separate Twitch account that will be the
    bot, log in to it, go to the application url and authenticate it so the application can use it as the bot?

  2. I am making the both for my own channel during my stream. Why do I need to specify a URL?

  3. Can I make the url inaccessible for anyone but me so I can authorize myself there so my bot can
    use the account I’ve made for it or can I just leave the url for the application to localhost when the application
    is already in production? I mean is this allowed by Twitch?

Any answers and help are very much needed and will be greatly appreciated.

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If you are making the application to have a client ID to make queries to the API, you can leave it under your account and just use the client ID during the bot’s queries. The bot can be a different account.

This is for web based applications, you can leave it as something like your twitch page just as a filler, you can change it later if needed. For a chat bot with no web interface it isn’t really needed.

You can make your own application to request a chat token as a specific user, or you can use something like: Twitch Chat Password Generator and use your bot credentials to get it’s “chat oauth” with scope=chat_login

The URL it just where the user would be redirected to after authentication. If you make a web app just to generate a chat_login oauth then where it redirects you to is trivial.

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You should register your applications under your main account. How you get the oauth token for your bot is up to you. Redirect urls can be private.

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Thank you very much for the helpful answers.
I should have probably started with the following:
Am I required to register an application to write and use my own bot?

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