twitch-game-status-update.py

Simple script, that help you update your game and status w/o going to twitch dashboard

Libs used:

• python-twitch-client

Usage:

1. First of all, you will create your application. Go to dev.twitch.tv and create one. If you going to use tokengen (recomended) - set OAuth Redirect URL to https://twitchapps.com/tokengen/. In other cases - http://localhost

2. Now you need get OAuth token, i recommend you to use tokengen. As scopes use channel_read channel_editor. In other cases, you can use The official twitch dev docs.

3. Test your client_id and oauth_token using try_config.py. Set the variables and run script.

4. Edit .twitch.cfg and copy them to your homedir and python settings dir, if needed. My directory with python settings is D:\WinPython\settings. For homedir in windows type %userprofile% to windows explorer. For more correct homedir finding and testing, run your python in command line and type these, the output will be your homedir for running python scripts:

import os
print(os.path.expanduser('~'))

5. Edit dota2.bat for automatic changing game and description while running game script. Debug it with cmd.

6. Happy Streaming.