Connecting to remote host like Twitch to monitor chat using websockets

[Dave Holly]

Greetings,

Is it possible to use Django Channels and websockets to monitor the chat in twitch rooms, or other sites with chat rooms?  I would like to display extra graphics for users who send cheers of high amounts, like 1000, 2000, etc.  I have the display worked out in Django where I'm monitoring a simple local chat.  This would be used as an overlay web page for OBS for the broadcaster.  When someone posts a specific cheer amount, the javascript displays a message or gif on the overlay web page with a short timeout.  It's basically to say Thank You to the tipper.

I haven't found any documentation or tutorials on using Django Channels for anything but setting up my own chat program.  

In the consumers, is there a way to connect to a site like twitch and search the DOM for specific chat messages, like cheers?  

Thanks.

[Andrew Godwin]

Hi Dave,

It depends on what the protocol for the chat room is, but Channels is more for hosting websocket-based applications than consuming them. I suspect you would be better off looking at websocket client libraries, if the chat socket is even accessible.

Andrew

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