TwitchDropsMiner/README.md

Twitch Drops Miner

This application allows you to AFK mine timed Twitch drops, without having to worry about switching channels when the one you were watching goes offline, or even receiving the stream data itself. This helps both you and Twitch save on bandwidth and hassle. Everybody wins!

Features:

• Stream-less drop mining - save on bandwidth.
• Sharded websocket connection, allowing for tracking up to 8*50-2=398 channels at the same time.
• Stream tags and drop campaign validation, so you don't end up watching a stream that can't earn you the drop.
• Channel stream switching, when the one you were currently watching goes offline.
• Cookie saving between sessions, so you don't need to login every time.
• Game switching once there's no more drops available for the selected game.
• Mining is stopped automatically when the last available drop has been mined.

Not managed / TODO / manual:

• Adding additional drop campaigns from other games to your inventory (requires you to do account linking yourself)

Usage:

• Download the lastest release - it's recommended to keep it in the folder it comes with.
• Run it and login into your Twitch using your username and password, and a 2FA key if you have one setup.
• After successful login, the app should fetch a list of all available live channels and start mining right away - select a different game or a different channel as needed.
• Persistent cookies will be stored in the cookies.jar file, from which the authorization information will be restored on each subsequent run.

Notes:

• Make sure to keep your cookies file safe, as the authorization information it stores can give another person access to your Twitch account.
• Successfully logging into your Twitch account in the application, may cause Twitch to send you a "New Login" notification email. This is normal - you can verify that it comes from your own IP address. The application uses Chrome's user agent, so the detected browser during the login should signify that as well.
• The time remaining timer always countdowns a single minute and then stops - it is then restarted only after the application redetermines the remaining time. This "redetermination" can happen as early as at 10 seconds in a minute remaining, and as late as 20 seconds after the timer reaches zero (especially when finishing mining a drop), but is generally only an approximation and does not represent nor affect actual mining speed. The time variations are due to Twitch sometimes not reporting drop progress at all, or reporting progress for the wrong drop - these cases have all been accounted for in the application.