Hexchat.register('auto-greeter', '0.1', 'Welcomes new members to chat channels ') Unfortunately, Lua has limited file system support so I kept it rather dumb and moved on to building this in Ruby.

This would allow me to effectively remember whether this combination of channel-user has been greeted before. I figured I shouldn't auto greet users that I've greeted previously, so I decided to store a file with the channel name and the chatter's username. I don't know whether this was genuinely a disconnect/reconnect issue or just the Twitch IRC servers bugging out. I noticed that often times, users would join and leave frequently. After some further reading, I realized that the events being referenced here were the events listed under HexChat's ' Settings' > ' Text Events' menu. I didn't understand what options were available for 'event'. I had a hard time learning how to use the hook_print function. I used the hexchat.hook_print function to listen for 'Join' events. So, you simply write a callback function and assign it to the corresponding hook. I decided that a lua script would be the easiest way to start.įurther research on the scripting API lead to me to understand that HexChat has a 'hook' system. This lead me to research the HexChat API and then to figure out the best and easiest way to automate some of this behavior. Out of habit, I started greeting people as they come in to the twitch chat. Once I had connected to Twitch chat using my HexChat client, I realized that I could see when people join a twitch chat, as they join. To learn about connecting to Twitch using IRC, check out my other blog post, linked here. Once I was able to connect to Twitch using IRC, I realized I could automate a ton of stuff.

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