Simple slack bot that polls twitch and announces when users are active

twitch_slack_bot.py

import os,time
from slackclient import SlackClient
from twitch import TwitchClient

client = TwitchClient(client_id=os.environ.get('TWITCH_TOKEN'))

# Dictionary of twitch accounts
twitchAccounts = {'NAME' : {'username' : 'TWITCH_USERNAME'}}

wait_time = 60

# get twitch user ids
for name,data in twitchAccounts.iteritems():
     users = client.users.translate_usernames_to_ids([data['username']])
     if len(users) > 0:
        data['id'] = users[0].id
        data['status'] : 'inactive'

BOT_NAME = 'BOT_NAME'

slack_client = SlackClient(os.environ.get('SLACK_BOT_TOKEN'))
if __name__ == "__main__":
    while True:
        for name,data in twitchAccounts.iteritems():
            if data['id'] == '':
                continue
            try:
                stream = client.streams.get_stream_by_user(channel_id=data['id'])
                if stream is not None:
                    if data['status'] == 'inactive':
                        data['status'] = 'active'
                        msg = "Attention: %s is now streaming %s twitch.tv/%s" % (name[0].upper()+name[1:],stream['game'],data['username'])
                        print(msg)
                        slack_client.api_call("chat.postMessage", channel='scrubbychat', text=msg, as_user=True)
                else:
                    data['status'] = 'inactive'
            except:
                pass
        print("sleeping...")
        time.sleep(wait_time)
        print("woke! Checking streams...")