CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythontwitchtwitch-api
AltF4
AltF4

Reputation: 11

TwitchIO bot without blocking

I'd like to use TwitchIO to talk to Twitch chat inside another program, without needing to hijack the main loop with Bot's run().

The official documentation here (https://twitchio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html) shows the code being run like:

from twitchio.ext import commands


class Bot(commands.Bot):

    def __init__(self):
        # Initialise our Bot with our access token, prefix and a list of channels to join on boot...
        # prefix can be a callable, which returns a list of strings or a string...
        # initial_channels can also be a callable which returns a list of strings...
        super().__init__(token='ACCESS_TOKEN', prefix='?', initial_channels=['...'])

    async def event_ready(self):
        # Notify us when everything is ready!
        # We are logged in and ready to chat and use commands...
        print(f'Logged in as | {self.nick}')

    @commands.command()
    async def hello(self, ctx: commands.Context):
        # Here we have a command hello, we can invoke our command with our prefix and command name
        # e.g ?hello
        # We can also give our commands aliases (different names) to invoke with.

        # Send a hello back!
        # Sending a reply back to the channel is easy... Below is an example.
        await ctx.send(f'Hello {ctx.author.name}!')


bot = Bot()
bot.run()
# bot.run() is blocking and will stop execution of any below code here until stopped or closed.

But as that last line says, run() will block execution.

Is there some other way of running it that doesn't block? Something like (made up)

bot.poll()

That would need to be run periodically in my program's main loop?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1153

Answers (2)

Flair
Flair

Reputation: 2907

In this case, you are looking to use start() instead of run()

Upvotes: 0

digitaluniverse
digitaluniverse

Reputation: 71

Are you adding any more code that uses the Bot class? If not I would suggest just making 2 processes.

The simplest way to do this is just creating 2 python files and running both of them at the same time.

If you really must run them both on the same program I would look into parallel processing. The next time you post a question I would suggest putting that "other programs" code into the question so people don't have to make those assumptions.

#ps if you need to run them in the same program edit your question to show the code you need to run together and ill take another look

Upvotes: 0

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