About DwayneBot

DwayneBot started as a simple chat bot for Twitch, and then grew into one of the biggest software projects I've built. Here were the goals I had in mind while created it:

Feature Goals

• It should work at least as well as existing popular chat bots that are used to manage Twitch, YouTube Live, or other live stream chat rooms, like Nightbot, StreamElements Chatbot, or PhantomBot.
• It should exist in one central, managable place but connect to many different chat rooms.
• It should integrate with HTML-based chats, like the WebSocket-based chats on this website, and text-only chats like IRC.
• It should take advantage of the many features and services I've built into this web server over the years.
• It should understand both "commands", which are single words prefixed with a character, and natural language (NLP).
• It should be able to both combine multiple responses from one user asking more than one thing at once, and combine responses from multiple users asking for the same thing.
• It should safely handle authentication for sensitive actions (like controlling my music or lights) or moderation (kicking and banning users) using a combination of the existing Dwayne.xyz account system and a "trust" system that extends to instances like Twitch or IRC.

Technical Goals

• It should be secure, efficient, and scale to a high level of traffic.
• It should be adaptive to different modes (text, HTML, syncronous, asyncronous, etc) and configurations.
• It should be able to change (and report on) its configuration or mood in real time per Instance.
• It should be completely managable from the dwayne.xyz admin section, including viewing all active Instances and invoking Actions in any of them.
• It should safely handle authentication in trusted and untrusted rooms.
• The Bridge App (that connects the Bot to all external rooms/channels like IRC or Twitch) should gracefully handle web app deployment or server restarts and report status separately from the Bot itself.