Getting info from Twitch's API to check if a streamer is online for a discord bot

Question

I am trying to make a Discord bot to check if a streamer on Twitch is online when you type "$live" but I cannot get it to work. I'm using Discord.py. My main issue is using headers to call the API to supply my authorization. Also, with the code I currently have written, it sends this error. My main question is, How can I supply the authorization keys so that it doesn't either give the error below or say that OAuth is needed. TIA!

Ignoring exception in on_message Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 343, in _run_event await coro(*args, **kwargs) File "main.py", line 19, in on_message response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 76, in get return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs) File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 61, in request return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs) File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 528, in request prep = self.prepare_request(req) File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 456, in prepare_request p.prepare( File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 317, in prepare self.prepare_headers(headers) File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 449, in prepare_headers for header in headers.items(): AttributeError: 'set' object has no attribute 'items'

Code below.

import discord 
import os
import requests

client = discord.Client()
url = 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/search/channels?query=whyoscar'
headers = {'client_id:' '*******************', 'Authorization:' 'Bearer **********************'}

@client.event
async def  on_ready():
  print('We have logged in as {0.user}'.format(client))

@client.event 
async def on_message(message):
  if message.author == client.user:
    return
  
  if message.content.startswith('$live'):
    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    details = response.json()
    await message.channel.send(details)

client.run(os.getenv('TOKEN'))

Answer 1

According to this post on the Twitch forum, you will need a user token, not an application token.

The Twitch API documentation says

OAuth or App Access Token required

...but it doesn't specify that the token needs to be a user token.

Anyway, go to TwitchTokenGenerator, select Bot Chat Token, login with your Twitch information and it should work.

Answer 2

If you are using OAuth to access Twitch API then the flow should be something along these line:

authURL = 'https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token'
client_ID = 'xxx'
secret = 'xxx'

AutParams = {'client_id': client_ID,
             'client_secret': secret,
             'grant_type': 'client_credentials'
             }

AutCall = requests.post(url=authURL, params=AutParams)
access_token = AutCall.json()['access_token']

head = {
    'Client-ID' : client_ID,
    'Authorization' :  "Bearer " + access_token
    }

Answer 3

The answer is, you want to define your headers like so: url = 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/search/channels?query=<channel you want to search for>&first=1' headers = {"client-id": os.getenv('CLIENT_ID_TOKEN'), "Authorization": os.getenv('ACCESS_TOKEN')} then put them in response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) , then get the response as JSON and check the response for is_live=true. That's all!