FAQ - freaktechnik/twitchbots GitHub Wiki

This is is a draft of the FAQ page for twitchbots.info. Some of the features it mentions may not be implemented yet.

Why did my submission not instantly appear?

All submissions are checked by us and will only be added once it is clear, that the account is used as a bot. If that can be verified without checking certain patterns some bots follow the type information is ignored. We check the Twitch user profile for any usage hints (is it a streamer, is it empty, does it describe the bot), the username (ending in bot is usually a pretty good indicator), its online status in chat (is it always online or only during streams, if at all) and its mod status. None of these are a definitive indicator if an account should be listed as bot, however they create a pretty good picture and most of the time generate enough information for a decision.

Some types (like DeepBot) have really easy ways to identify the bot software and thus are checked, too.

If a custom type is specified, we verify that custom type and sometimes will leave it out, since we don't have enough information to add it to the database (no website to link to is the most common reason).

Once that check is passed the bot will be added to the site.

I submitted my channel for nightbot/twitchalerts etc. and it hasn't been added

That's because those bots don't allow for custom usernames or if they do would always be in the channel they were purchased for. If you did not provide the channel there is no way for us to verify.

I want to correct kikettebot

You probably don't want to. And if you really think you want to, I suggest contacting us.

Why is FennekFox not a bot?

I contacted the "developers" of FennekFox and they confirmed to me, that they in fact directly log in to Twitch chat with that account and there is no actual bot software running on that account.

Some bot types have way more known users

For some types the website can get a list of bots that are ran at a given time. Those are then added automatically. The types the website can do this for are ModBot and DeepBot as well as official PajBot instances.

I develop a bot type and it's missing so many users

Currently there's no API for you to report bots to the website, however if you contact us, we'll happily add a crawler that checks an endpoint you provide for new bots of your type. The endpoint should include the bot user and the channel it's for. We can treat the URL and credentials for that endpoint confidential and load them from the DB during runtime. For an example see the ModBot crawler.

My bot is listed on here but got banned from whispering

Very possible. This site is completely independent of any Twitch services, other than all listed bots being Twitch users.

I want to choose a Twitch bot for my channel

I recommend https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/4qcsfq/an_updated_twitch_bot_list/

How are the estimated active channels calculated?

If a type can be in a single channel per instance, the known instances are counted, and if possible multiple instances on the same channel collapsed. Else the channels the bot is modded in are counted, and combined over all instances and then counted. If an instance is modded nowhere or has no channel set, it is counted as being active in one channel. When a bot is modded in more than 10000 channels, the channels are no longer de-duplicated, leading to potentially bigger numbers.