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Use your own bot account

Send bot messages from your own Twitch account instead of TipPageBot - a TipPage+ feature.

By default the bot speaks as TipPageBot on Twitch. With TipPage+ you can link a Twitch account of your own - YourNameBot - and every bot message in your Twitch chat comes from it instead. Commands, announcements, everything else works exactly the same. Chat moderation acts as it too: deletes, timeouts and bans show in chat as your bot, not TipPageBot - which is why it needs to be a moderator.

Before you start

You need a separate Twitch account for the bot. It can’t be your streaming account (we’ll reject that), and one bot account can only serve one channel.

Get a link

In the Bot status panel, find the Appears as row and click Connect custom bot. The dashboard gives you a link to copy. (Not on TipPage+? You’ll see an unlock button instead.)

Open it as the bot

Twitch connects whichever account the browser is signed into - so open the link somewhere that’s signed in as the bot account, not you: another browser, a private window, or your phone. The link works once and for fifteen minutes. The Twitch page names the account it’s about to connect at the top - check it’s the bot before approving.

Authorise

Approve the permissions - they let the account send chat messages as a bot, and delete messages, time out and ban viewers for chat moderation. That tab tells you the one thing left, and the dashboard notices on its own.

Mod it

Type /mod YourBotName in your Twitch chat, signed in as the broadcaster - only the channel owner can grant mod. Without it the bot can’t delete, time out or ban, and Twitch rate-limits what it says.

Disconnecting

Disconnect bot in the same panel reverts everything to TipPageBot instantly. If your TipPage+ lapses, the custom bot switches off with it.

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