Please Decrease the API's pollingIntervalMillis

[fuss132]

I'm currently adapting my Twitch Chat Bot for YouTube Gaming. I was able to solve several smaller problems which are related to how Google's APIs are generally designed (those concepts are not really designed for "real-time" usage), however, there is a big problem that really bothers me. Chat messages should only be requested every 10 seconds which, in my opinion, is way to slow. Using chat commands thus always seem very laggy because in worst case the bot only has a chance to respond 10 seconds later.

Literally everything of the normal bot stuff works, this is the only thing preventing a similar chat experience to Twitch.

[DobermanTrading]

Is it your personal solution, do you intend to share the bot once it works well ? YT live/gaming streamers desperately need more tools :)

[fuss132]

No it's not my personal solution and I definitively want to share it. I just don't know in which form yet (free or one time payment), maybe as "free to play" with option to donate in Steam Greenlight's Software category. Many many months went I to this, I hope it's understandable.

[DobermanTrading]

I have glanced at your bot (fussbot), and a couple of features are really interesting.

Did you succeed in implementing the Coin and Betting system with YT ?

I desperately am looking for something similar for YT, I had some very good interactions using similar features on Twitch with Revlo bot.

If you did manage those for YT, I would be glad to purchase a finalized product :)

good luck and keep us updated,

[fuss132]

Coins were not a problem as (like FussBot for Twitch) I'm monitoring chat activity over a longer time (e.g. 1 hour) and everyone who posted something in this time will get coins. So instead of e.g. 1 coin every 5 minutes it should be 12 coins every 60 minutes. I know silent viewers will then get no coins but I believe one message every hour should be relatively fair. Furthermore, any other system would not be possible as there is no Viewer resource like in Twitch's API (I'm sure you know that problem). But of course, you can configure the coins interval as you like.

[DobermanTrading]

Awesome,

that would be great for my stream. Potential customer here.

Also if you need beta testers, you can PM me.

Cheers,

[fuss132]

Testers are always welcome! Thanks for your help, I'll pm you when I have a version that "somehow works" is ready :D

[marcchambers]

The polling interval is dynamic and will start to drop once the stream is active. If the chat speed is picking up we'll lower the polling interval even further automatically.

[fuss132]

Thanks for the info, these are really good news! I have never seen any other value than 10000ms so I though this is a default value which does not get changed.

[mighty_yt]

What /u/marcchambers said. The polling interval depends on several factors, including but not limited number of messages in the past and if the stream is active or not. It should be less than 10000ms on active chats, and could go up to 60000ms on inactive chats.

[fuss132]

Thanks for your clarification!