Creating your own Twitch chat bot using mIRC

If you're bored or limited by the possibilities of other pre-made Twitch chat bots and want to make your own one, you will be amazed how much you've been missing the whole time. The freedom of scripting and options in mIRC (Program especially created for chat bots) is just overwhelming and in most cases your scripting knowledge will be the only limitation of your bot but this is why this guide was created.

1. To start off, you will need the program itself which can be downloaded either from the official site or mirrors provided there for free - http://www.mirc.co.uk/get.html                                                          

   

   
   

2. You will also need another Twitch account to link the bot to. You can name it whatever you want but I would advise adding the "bot" bit at the end so people will know that it's a bot and not a real person chatting. For example "HorusBot".                                                                                                      

   

   
   

3. When you will successfully install mIRC, launch it and you should get a popup screen which looks like that on the picture. In the "Nickname" box write your bot's account username you created in step 2 and leave all the other boxes blank.                                                                                                     

   

   
   

4. On the left side of the popup there is a category box, expand "Connect" and click on "Servers" sub-page. You should see a list of original servers available to use but we want to connect to Twitch so click the "Add" Button on the right and a popup should come up like shown on the picture. In description write what you want to call the connection, in my case I just named it like my bot. In the IRC box you will need to exactly put the "irc.twitch.tv" address, leave the port as "6667" and the "Group" box blank. (If the port is blocked by the modem you will need to portforward or contact your internet owner)                                                                                                                           

   

   
   

5. In the password box you will need to enter your bot account's OAuth key so navigate to this site - http://twitchapps.com/tmi/ and click "Connect with Twitch" button.                                                    

   

   
   

6. Then copy the whole code provided in the box that starts with "oauth:" and paste it into the "Password" box from step 4, click add, double click on the server you have just added and click ok.   

   

   
   

7. Now you have successfully set up your bot for use, joining channels and scripting that will be explained in further guides covering different areas. The only thing left to do is to click the connect button that has a lightning icon as shown on the picture connecting your bot to the Twitch server.          

   

   
   

To learn how to use your bot that includes connecting to channels and actually scripting it's behaviour, check out my next guides that are categorised on the right side of the screen.

I hope this guide helped you to set up your own Twitch chat bot using mIRC and if you have any further questions feel free to contact me by e-mail or directly on twitch - "HorusMod".