Twitchbot Timesout

[levant.alejandro]

Hey there! I"m trying to create a Twitch Plays Bot using Python.

I connect with this method (I have my oauth setup, don’t worry)

def twitch_connect(self, user, key):
        self.user = user;
        self.oauth= key;
        print("Connecting to twitch.tv");
        s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM);
        s.settimeout(0.6);
        connect_host = "irc.twitch.tv";
        connect_port = 6667;
        try:
            s.connect((connect_host, connect_port));
        except:
            print("Failed to connect to twitch");
            sys.exit();
        print("Connected to twitch");
        print("Sending our details to twitch...");
        s.send(('USER %s\r\n' % user +
                'PASS %s\r\n' % key +
                'NICK %s\r\n' % user).encode('utf-8'));
 
        if not self.twitch_login_status(s.recv(1024)):
            print("... and they didn't accept our details");
            sys.exit();
        else:
            print("... they accepted our details");
            print("Connected to twitch.tv!")
            self.s = s;
            s.send(('JOIN #%s\r\n' % user).encode('utf-8'))
            s.recv(1024);

But then receiving a message will always ALWAYS time out, from the begginig

def twitch_recieve_messages(self, amount=1024):
        data = None
        try: data = self.s.recv(1024);
        except:
            print("FUCK!");
            return False;
 
        if not data:
            print("Lost connection to Twitch, attempting to reconnect...");
            self.twitch_connect(self.user, self.oauth);
            return None

What is going on?

[matt_thomas]

Your snippet doesn’t show your PING/PONG event which is a normal cause for timeouts.

Twitch keeps sending spaces to IRC Bot Python

I keep getting PING :tmi.twitch.tv but it doesn’t print “Pong send!”

[levant.alejandro]

Hey!

I watched some more examples on this, and added the PING/PONG line:

def twitch_recieve_messages(self, amount=1024):
        data = None
        try:
            data = self.s.recv(1024);
        except:
            print("FUCK!");
            return False;
        for line in data.split("\r\n"):
            if line == "":
                continue;
            if "PING :tmi.twitch.tv" in line:
                print(line);
                msgg = "PONG :tmi.twitch.tv\r\n".encode();
                irc.send(msgg);
                print(msgg);
                continue;
        if not data:
            print("Lost connection to Twitch, attempting to reconnect...");
            self.twitch_connect(self.user, self.oauth);
            return None;
        #self.ping(data)
        if self.check_has_message(data):
            return [self.parse_message(line) for line in filter(None, data.split('\r\n'))];

It doesn’t work/

The thing is, it just STARTS timing out, it never works, it’s not after a while that it times out, it just NEVER works, times out from the moment I run the script

[Marenthyu]

It looks like you’re using synchronous plain sockets - and the receive function blocks the thread. I assume that this is the underlying issue as you may be receiving less than 1024 bytes and thus never moving on.

I can’t say for sure, though.

While you can make it work, I would recommend to switch to WebSockets for more reliability and easier multithreading.

You can have a look at GitHub - Marenthyu/twitchChatAndOAuthExample: An Example / Reference Implementation of Twitch Authentication and Chat Message Handling. for an example.

Otherwise: catch the error where you’re currently just printing FUCK and check what that says exactly