[PYTHON] Minimal twitch chat client

[.SkyneT.]

Just a very minimalistic twitch irc client in python (great to gather statistics about the chat)


Everything is explained with comments.
Feel free to suggest improvements.

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import socket

# twitch irc host
HOST = "irc.twitch.tv
# default irc port
PORT = 6667
# channelname
CHAN = "#channelname"
# nickname, "justinfan[randomnumber]" is used to connect anonymously to irc.twitch.tv
# if you want to send messages you need to use a oauth token and send it like that:
# con.send("PASS" + OAUTH)
NICK = "justinfan6213234863"

# init a new socket
con = socket.socket()
# connect to irc.twitch.tv
con.connect((HOST, PORT))
# login and join channel
con.send("USER " + NICK + "\r\n")
con.send("NICK " + NICK + "\r\n")
con.send("JOIN " + CHAN + "\r\n")

# infinite loop to receive data
# I recommend using threads in a production enviroment - more control!
while 1:
    # receive some data
    data = str(con.recv(1024))
    # check if you received something
    if not data:
        break
    # check for a message
    elif "PRIVMSG" in data:
        msg = data.split(":")[2:]
        msg = "".join(msg).rstrip()
        print "MESSAGE: " + msg
    # you will receive a ping from twitch from time to time
    # - send a pong back, to make sure you don't get disconnected
    elif "PING" in data:
        print "PING - PONG"
        con.send("PONG tmi.twitch.tv\r\n")  
    # some other data, that i don't care about
    else:
        print "SOMETHINGELSE: "+data
# close the connection
con.close()