kappafeed

2014

What is it?

Kappafeed is a program that listens in top Twitch.tv channel chatrooms for whichever emoticon the user has selected, and displays all messages in one collective feed. It integrates with Twitch APIs and IRC servers in order to merge the top chat channels into one feed.

I also created a Kappafeed Overwolf app for a contest they were hosting and won a gaming headset. Overwolf app source.

The Kappafeed Overwolf app running over League of Legends.

What did I learn?

I learned a lot about maintaining servers and keeping a service running reliably 24/7. Admittedly, the code for this project got a bit unruly as more features were added and more error handling of edge cases was added. I learned valuable lessons about code refactor and structure for future projects.

View the source on Github.

Technologies

Python, Tornado Web Server, IRC, Websockets, HTML, JQuery, CSS