TCCG is a system of bots that collects Twitch clips automatically, allows you to easily edit videos by cutting and combining clips, and combines them into a compilation video ready to be uploaded straight to any social media platform, with optional background music, animation intervals, outros or intros . Full VPS support is provided, along with a basic authentication system so multiple users can use the bot at once.
Click on image above to see video of TCCG in use.
Compilation videos can be found in all corners of the internet - YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. One of the most popular types are gaming compilations showcasing compilations of entertaining gaming clips. There are many different variants of gaming compilations - top clips, wins, fails, wtf moments, glitches, funny moments etc. They wrack up a lot of views and can quickly grow a channels follower base, especially when a new game is released. However there are several inefficencies involved in creating compilation videos the traditional way. This bot (or series of programs) addresses many of these issues, streamlining the process of creating these videos.
This bot is split up into three co-dependent programs. The server. The client. The video generator. These programs make up the powerful system for that is TCCG.
Sample Videos:
- Passively downloads and stores top highlight clips from Twitch for any category/categories. The clips are automatically kept track of in a clip bin database.
- Provides a video editor interface connected directly to the clip bin database, allowing you to easily go through the clips. The interface is somewhat similar to that of Tinder, where you can keep/skip a video clip. You can also trim the clips and change their volume.
- A video generator that compiles the selected clips, generating the final mp4 video that you can upload to any platform.
One of the main challenges of creating compilation videos is finding the video clips in the first place. This can be a laborious task and can take a lot of time. This bot will automatically find and download clips for you straight from Twitch. They come from the top clips category, somewhat guaranteeing that they be good quality. It's not perfect. Sometimes streamers will have the wrong gaming category selected when their clip gets highlighted or duplicates of clips occur where multiple users highlighted the same clip. Despite this, it still makes the process incredibly quick. Full VPS Support and Account System
Since the bot is split up into three different programs, communications between the programs uses a combination HTTP and FTP servers to move information and files from one program to the other. The FTP servers are used to move mp4 files around while the HTTP servers are for general information and usually are in the form of json. FTP requires authentication for each client which is the basis of the account system. You can add or remove users and set their password in the server program. This username and password combination is required in the video editor program. Therefore this works perfectly for a large scale operation as multiple people can use the bot at once.
- Server Program Function: • Automatically downloads clips from Twitch top highlights for any categories that you select. • Can manage accounts for the client logins
- Video Editor Program
The user interface that is used to browse and make compilations out of the clips stored in the server clip bin. For every clip you have the option to keep or remove it; trim it's start/end and change it's volume. You can also upload an intro/outro/interval/general clip. There are also optional background music options for each video.
- Video Generator Program This combines the clips into the final compilation video as specified in video editor. If a interval is specified, one will be put as a transition between every clip. The same goes for the intro and outro which will be put at the start/end of the video respectively. A credits text file is also generated, which contains links to all the livestreamers whos clips were used in the video.
The automatic downloader side of the server is split into two different routines:
- Finding the top highlight clips and obtaining it’s URL
- Downloading the clip via the URL
There are no restrictions on downloading the clips and this is simple to do once a URL is obtained. However finding the top clips in the first place is another story.
To find the clips the bot uses the following API call:
https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/clips/top?game={game_name}&period={period}&language=en&limit={100}&cursor={next_page_cursor}
We use the kraken API because it gives access to many more clips then helix - approximately 4x as much.
Twitch only gives you access to approximately 1000 clips for each time period entered into the API call, as it limits the amount of pages you can use in the pagination call to about 10 pages, at a max of 100 clips per page. There are four time periods “day”, “week”, “month”, “all”. Therefore at any one time you can only get 4000 clips if every single page is used (which the bot does by default). This would not be a sufficient amount of clips if the find/download process is only initiated when the bot is used for video editing. Therefore it is recommended to run this process automatically to build up a large clip bin, preferably on a VPS. This is largely down to the usage of the bot - heavy usage will demand a large amount of clips, and therefore turning on the automated find/download process is recommended for this case.
Music
While you'll have to create most of the assets for yourself, I can provide some copyright free "epic" music to get you started. There's 25 of the best copyright free epic music found regularly in "top clips/plays" videos, with the volumes adjusted to a similar level. Simply drag the "Epic" folder into the video generator Assets/Music/ folder and restart it. This will register the new music category in the server so that the client can now select it when editing a video.
There's also the option of choosing "None" for the music category when editing a video. This will generate the video without any music.
Epic Music (25 copyright free songs)
Video Files Video files can be manually uploaded into the bot for four different purposes:
- As a introduction video
- As a interval (transition) video
- As a outro video
- As a "first clip" video
The selection of these video files is done in the video editor client. The selection of 1, 2, 3 can be saved so that you do not have to reselect them each time. The video files must be 1920x1080p otherwise the video editor will not allow you to select them.
These files should be placed into the following folders in the video editor client directory.
- Outros
- FirstClips
- Intros
- Outros
These folders will be generated when the video editor client is run.
You can also generate a video without uploading any extra video files. See below for the client config file options:enforce_interval,enforce_intro,enforce_outro,enforce_firstclip
Fonts
This is for the subtitle of the streamer's name. The streamer's name will appear in the top left of each clip. You can change the font of this text by changing the value of fontnamein the video generator config file. The value should be the name of any font installed on your system.
Table clip_bin
clip_num : iterator
game : What Twitch category the clip belongs to
clip_id : Unique id for clip provided by Twitch
date: Date when clip recorded
clipwrapper: clip's TwitchClipWrapper() from scriptwrapper.py
status: The status of the clip
• FOUND = information found about clip but not downloaded yet.
• DOWNLOADED = Clip downloaded and ready for editing
• USED = Used in video (mp4 file has been deleted)
• MISSING = Can occur after “Update Missing Status” clicked. Clips with status previously marked as DOWNLOADED, but mp4 cannot be found will be marked as MISSING.
Table saved_games
num : iterator
game_name : The category name as it appears on Twitch
game_id : The id of the category
Server
main.py : start point
database.py : all the sql queries are written here
server.py : FTP and HTTP Servers are handled here.
settings.py : Data loaded in from config.ini
twitch.py : Where the API calls are made to Twitch with the download/find methods.
autodownloader.py : A wrapper for the download/find process utilised in autodownloaderUI.py
autodownloaderUI.py : Where the UI is programmed
scriptwrapper.py : Various wrappers for the twitch clips here. Formatting of the video occurs here in the reformatPartialJson method
Client
main.py : start point
client.py : Communications with the server http and ftp occur here
settings.py : Data loaded in from config.ini
scriptwrapper.py : Various wrappers for twitch clips / entire videos are stored here
clientUI.py : Where the UI is programmed
Video Generator
main.py : start point
server.py : FTP and HTTP Servers are handled here.
settings.py : Data loaded in from config.ini
scriptwrapper.py : Various wrappers for twitch clips / entire videos are stored here
vidGen.py : Methods for video rendering here see renderVideo
vidgenUI.py : Where the UI is programmed
Setup the programs in the following order:
- Server
- Client
- Video Generator
Each program has it's own config file that MUST be configured appropriately for the system to function properly. Each bot will generate a config file (3 in total) once it is ran from it's start point file. Once the config file is generated, fill in the details where necessary then restart the bot and the changes will be taken into account.
Server config
[server_details]
address = 127.0.0.1 <-- Server Address
http_port = 8000 <-- Server HTTP Port
ftp_port = 2121 <-- Server FTP Port
[video_generator_location]
address = 127.0.0.1 <-- Video Generator Address
http_port = 8001 <--Video Generator HTTP Port
ftp_port = 2122 <-- Video Generator FTP Port
ftp_user = VidGen <-- Video Generator FTP Client name
ftp_password = password <-- Video Generator FTP Client password
[twitch_settings]
language = en <-- Clip language
client_id = <-- Twitch API Client ID
bearer = <-- Twitch API Bearer
[mysql_database]
databasehost = localhost <-- MySQL Server address
databaseuser = root <-- MySQL Server user
databasepassword = <-- MySQL Server user password
Video editor client config
[server_location]
address = 127.0.0.1 <-- Server address
server_http_port = 8000 <-- Server HTTP port
server_ftp_port = 2121 <-- Server FTP port
[auto_login]
username = admin <-- User registered in server
password = password <-- User registered in server’s password
auto_login = true <-- Insert the above details into the login window on startup
[video_settings]
enforce_interval = True <-- Forces you to select a interval for your video
enforce_intro = True <-- Forces you to select a intro for your video
enforce_outro = True <-- Forces you to select a outro for your video
enforce_firstclip = True <-- Forces you to select a first clip for your video
Video Generator config file
[video_generator_details]
address = 127.0.0.1 <-- Video Generator Address
http_port = 8001 <-- Video Generator HTTP port
ftp_port = 2122 <-- Video Generator FTP port
ftp_user = VidGen <-- Video Generator FTP user
ftp_password = password <-- Video Generator FTP user’s password
[server_location]
address = 127.0.0.1 <-- Server address
http_port = 8000 <-- Server HTTP port
ftp_port = 2121 <-- Server FTP port
[rendering]
fps = 30 <-- FPS to render video at
fontname = Gilroy-ExtraBold <-- Font for streamers name. (Must be installed on system)
streamer_name = true <-- Include the streamer name in the video
FFMPEG is required for the Video Generator Program. (must be added to system path so can be called from command line)
A MySQL server is required for the Server program.
Python (recommend 3.7+ and 64bit on windows)
Twitch API credentials (client_id and bearer)
Module list
- requests
- PyQt5
- Pymediainfo
- Opencv-python
- Moviepy
- Pyftpdlib
- Pysubs2
- Pydub
- mysql