twitch2firestore-websocket-server

A websocket server that listens to Twitch chat messages and stores them in Firestore.

Installation

First, install the required dependencies.

You can install the dependencies by running the following command in the root directory.

# start a virtual environment and install the dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# or if you are using astral-sh/uv
uv run websocket.py

Create a .env file in the root directory and set up the environment variables.

# .env

# Twitch
TWITCH_CLIENT_ID = {YOUR_CLIENT_ID}
TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET = {YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET}

# Firebase Project ID
PROJECT_ID = {YOUR_PROJECT_ID}

Download the service account key from Firebase and save it as credentials.json in the root directory.

Then start the server.

python websocket.py

Dependencies

• requests
• python-dotenv
• asyncio
• aiohttp
• websockets
• firebase_admin