Feature Preview 0.8.0 - v7 lower CPU and multi-os

[jlplenio]

Please enjoy the latest updates and features ready to download for supporters.

Due to various feedback and reports from you supporters, I have tried to fix CPU spikes caused by "community highlights" such as shoutouts, pins, announcements and raids. I have the impression that the spikes are greatly reduced in this version.

Additionally, I added an experimental "low cpu test" option that blocks the video stream in the browser - instead, you only see a red box. Traffic and ram usage remain the same, but CPU usage is greatly reduced. I'm not sure what the side effects of enabling this option are. Only use this option if everything works fine without it. Please report back.

Features and Fixes:

• Reduced CPU spikes caused by "community highlights"
• Added an experimental low cpu test option

Further information regarding chatting and following:

• Manual Chatting option: Select user and press return to send the chat message.
• Commands like chat or follow are executed within 10s, please be patient.
• Check beforehand, if a chat has restrictions (e.g. followers only).
• If "detected" is True, following will not work, but chat will.
• Please use the debug menu to diagnose issues.

Debug menu for troubleshooting:

Add your twitch tokens to the following file: /config/twitch_token_list.txt. You can extract your tokens following this tutorial.
It is mandatory that you do not log out after grabbing the token. It is best to use an incognito window and simply close it afterward.

Add your chat messages to the following file: /config/chat_messages.txt.

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Download for supporters

• https://ko-fi.com/Post/Feature-Preview-v9--Kick-Cloudflare-bypass-I2I5WLLI8

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Known problems:

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Todos:

• Fix the Linux version for ko-fi supporter. Pyinstaller is the culprit.
• Transitioning to chat via IRC connection, improving performance
• Persistent settings and settings tab.
• Option to set the interval for status updates (which are very resource intensive). You will get less frequent updates, but should be able to run more instances stable.

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Please give me feedback here, so I can continue to improve based on your feedback. 🌷

[Alexistexas9697]

Do the bots we added here go with the raid without any problems (If so, are there problems such as not being able to send them with the raid due to some problems? I searched for feedback on this, but I could not see them.) and when I click on my Twitch chat list, will I be able to see the usernames of the bots we added here?

[jlplenio]

To the best of my knowledge, if you have high quality proxies & tokens and leave some cpu resources as buffer, the instances should follow a raid. We are discussing potential issues over here #228

If you add valid tokens for each instances, these usernames will appear in the chat and can follow and send messages.

Keep in mind though, that after a successful raid, eventhough the users appear in the chat list of the new channel, the chat messages will still go to the initial channel. The tool was never intended to get redirected i.e. follow a raid to another channel.

[Alexistexas9697]

I'm now your subscriber from Ko-Fi :) I downloaded the latest version and it works great. Now I will tell you my experiences and shortcomings:
With the R5 5600x processor, I can send approximately 40 messages without any problems (provided the proxies work solid and fast). However, since I want to use it for 80 people, I have to do this from 2 PCs. So thank you for not selling under license. Because it would be very difficult for me to pay 9+9 Euros every month :) CPU usage is very low, it would be much better if it could be reduced further. However, when I activate "Low CPU Test", I see a red screen (when I take a screenshoot), I see that the bot is running (green dot) but despite this, the trackers automatically drop after a while. I think this is because you are in the testing phase, I think you will improve and fix this.
Coming to the "raid" issue, which is one of the most important issues, I can now raid without any problems, just with a proxy, without having to register tokens. Did you fix this in this version? because when I try CTV 6.1 version again, raid definitely doesn't work. But in version 8.0, I can use the raid feature without any problems even without needing a token. Please don't break this in future versions. Of course, since I did not enter a token, the viewers were not reflected in the chat list, but despite this, the raid worked flawlessly. Afterwards, I added the tokens of a few accounts and managed to turn the green dots into blue dots :) and these accounts were reflected in the chat list without any problems. I've only tried the tokens for 3 accounts, I hope this won't cause slowdowns and corruption when I add more tokens.
I had a lot of problems with adding tokens at first. When I added the Tokens at first, they were not reflected in the chat list (there was no blue dot), only 1 of them was blue. Afterwards, after receiving the token of each Twitch account I logged into, I closed and reopened Chrome and logged in to the other account whose token I wanted to receive. I received the tokens for each twitch account by closing and reopening Chrome. I managed to make it work by doing it this way, so all the accounts whose tokens I bought were reflected as viewers in my chat list. I hope these feedback are useful to you. Thanks again. I hope you continue this work, don't quit. Even if you quit this job, I need to reach you later, please contact me from other places, you are great :) <3

Edit: Raids have been working very stably for 2 days. However, when I tried it again today, I observed that it did not work. I renewed the proxies and tried again, but I failed to send it via raid again. The tokens fall into the audience list, I send 30 bots. However, a maximum of 10 bots participate in the raid, why not include all of them? Yesterday it was running 30/30 very stably. unfortunately today is 10/30 :(

[jlplenio]

1. You are saying that with the low-cpu mode, the instances stop to count as viewer at some point? Can others verify?
2. Tokens will required more system power.
3. I suspect that only viewer with the flag "bot detected" as False will follow raids. Why an instance is flagged can have many reasons (e.g. bad proxy, user agent or combination), only Twitch knows. That's why I think sometimes it works for you and sometimes it doesn't.

[Alexistexas9697]

With r5 5600x and 16gb ram (with webshare shared proxies) approximately 30 units can be downloaded from 1 pc. I have 2 PCs with the same system. and I can throw 60 pieces. However, when I increase it above 30, the bots die. However, 30+30=60 is more than enough for me. It would be great if you just fix the raid issue. <3

[jlplenio]

Can anyone provide feedback on the "low cpu test" option? 🙏

[TravisLown901]

I noticed with the "low cpu test" that the views will stop counting or won't count at all.

[MubarakHAlketbi]

can we have the ability to use ungoogled chromium instead of google chrome?

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

[jlplenio]

Please see your dms on ko-fi.

[Alexistexas9697]

Will there be new updates? What updates are you planning to make?

[jlplenio]

I just released v8 on ko-fi, with chzzk support, a chat bugfix and a youtube test fix.
Other than that, it's pretty quiet here and in the issues. I suppose it's just working smoothly and that's a good status to achieve too. 👍
On the todo list atm is to remember the users' configuration, a settings tab with more custom settings options and kick debugging.

[Billjovins]

Hello. i have many questions

Regarding the number of proxies needed: Is one proxy required for each view or can I have 100 views with 50 proxies?

What proxy plan do you recommend for 100 viewers, static residential or datacenter, and how many proxies?

Regarding the tokens: Does each view need to be associated with a token or do I only need tokens for accounts using the chat option?

[jlplenio]

Hey @Billjovins,

1. If you purchase higher quality proxies, I have observed that one proxy can serve two instances.
2. Follow the medium plan on the Webshare Proxy Guide. But maybe the minimum plan can work. too!
3. Tokens are optional, yes, you only need them if you want to chat and to have the username appears in the chat list.

[Billjovins]

Thank you, friend. I admire you a lot... soon I will subscribe to get version 7.

[jlplenio]

I just released v8. After you subscribed and downloaded the supporter version, it is yours forever.

[Alexistexas9697]

I used to be able to follow with a bot, but I can't anymore. I encounter an error like this "Trying to follow... (if nothing happens, check for GraphQL errors in logs.)" What is the reason for this? and how do i fix it?

[jlplenio]

Can you please check, if your instances have the bot detected flag on true?

[matt3434]

I had following error when tried to run last ko-fi version on my ubuntu 20.04 vps
XXXXXX@C-GS-qOd:~/Documents/CTVBot_KOFI_v8_CHZZK_0.8.0_20240323_Linux-X64_experimental$ sudo ./CTVBot_KOFI_v8_CHZZK_0.8.0_20240323_Linux-X64_experimental.bin
./CTVBot_KOFI_v8_CHZZK_0.8.0_20240323_Linux-X64_experimental.bin
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
Available proxies 118
Available window locations 2
Available tokens {'twitch': 0}
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main_gui.py", line 25, in
File "ctvbot/gui.py", line 29, in init
File "tkinter/init.py", line 2345, in init
_tkinter.TclError: couldn't connect to display ":1"
[2036998] Failed to execute script 'main_gui' due to unhandled exception!

[jlplenio]

Please try the new ko-fi release: https://github.com/jlplenio/crude-twitch-viewer-bot/discussions/256