Custom chat bot for Twitch TV

This is an open-source console application with a .NET Core Web API that will benefit anyone who wants to have a foundation of making their own Twitch bot. This is primarly written in C#/SQL Server using an Azure SQL database from Microsoft. Currently, this bot is not end-user friendly because I'm concentrating on the logic of the bot first.

For developers, please read further down for details on manually setting a dev configuration so the information is always saved.

Check out the wiki for the full list of commands by clicking here!

The bot itself is an account on Twitch that I have made in order to have a custom bot name.

For a development environment (testing), create an AppConfigSecrets.config in the same folder as App.config. If you have any issues setting up this bot, please look further below for possible solutions.

<TwitchBotConfiguration 
    botName="" 
    broadcaster="" 
    currencyType=""
    enableDisplaySong="false"
    enableTweets="false" 
    libVLCAudioOutputDevice=""
    regularFollowerHours="30"
    spotifyClientId=""
    spotifyRedirectUri=""
    spotifyServerUri=""
    streamLatency="10" 
    twitchBotApiLink=""
    twitchOAuth="" 
    twitchClientId=""
    twitchAccessToken="" 
    twitterConsumerKey="" 
    twitterConsumerSecret=""
    twitterAccessToken="" 
    twitterAccessSecret="" 
    youTubeClientId="" 
    youTubeClientSecret=""
    youTubeBroadcasterPlaylistId=""
    youTubeBroadcasterPlaylistName="" />

Set file to copy-if-newer so it's included in the compilation. For production, this file is not needed and the bot will ask for configuration on first run

• IIS HTTP Error 404.11 - Not Found The request filtering module is configured to deny a request that contains a double escape sequence
  • Add this line into the file: C:\[PathToSolution]\.vs\config\applicationhost.config

    <system.webServer>
        <security>
            <requestFiltering allowDoubleEscaping="true"/>
        </security>
    </system.webServer>

  • Workaround Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1453287/2113548
  • File Location Source: https://stackoverflow.com/q/12946476/2113548

• Official Guide: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/iis/

• This will be an ongoing doc as to how to publish the Web API so you don't have to run IIS Express

• My settings when publishing this app via "File System":

  • Configuration:
    • Release - x64
  • Target Framework:
    • netcoreapp3.1
  • Deployment Mode:
    • Self-Contained
  • Target Runtime:
    • win-x64
  • File Publish Options (checked):
    • Delete all existing files prior to publish

• Remember to give IIS AppPool\[app_pool_name] (at least) read & execute permissions to the deployed folder

  • This will allow the files to be overwritten as needed on deployment
  • Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/iis/?application-pool-identity