Trying to pull a list from pastebin based on current game played

[vlamish]

I’m very new to complex nightbot commands and I’m having trouble getting something to work that I know SHOULD work. What I want to do is have a !join command that will list the in-game user name based on current game being played.

example:
fortnite: fakename1

Based on cursory research, I know I should be able to have a pastebin set up with the list of games and usernames to add and use it as a JSON to look up the game and print the right username. But I cannot get it to work.

I have gotten $(twitch “{{game}}”) to work to use as the input, but I haven’t been able to incorporate that input into an $(eval) to look up in the pastebin.

[Emily]

Hey @vlamish!

I’ve covered this topic a couple times, the following posts should help you figure it out, but don’t hesitate if you need further help:

Current game and description command?

Hey @Vanderbeam! You can easily do this by using the power of JSON! First go to Pastebin, create an account in order to be able to add more games in the future. Next create your JSON file, here’s how to do it: { "game name": "description", "second game": "description", "third game": "description", "nth game": "description" } Click here for more explanation on the JSON format. Note: if you need to add a ", a /, or a \ in your text, you’ll need to precede it by a back slash \,…

Dynamic sensitivity command | Different output per game

Hey @sawex! Here’s how to make such command: !addcom !sens $(eval s = ['SENS1', 'SENS2', 'SENS3', 'SENS4']; f = `Here are the various mouse sensitivity settings I use: ${s.join(', ')}`; t = '$(twitch $(channel) "{{status}}|{{game}}")'.split('|'); t[0] === 'offline' ? f : switch (t[1]) {case 'GAME1': s[0]; break; case 'GAME2': s[1]; break; case 'GAME3': s[2]; break; case 'GAME4': s[3]; break; default: f;}) All you have to do now is to replace the various SENS and GAME. A cleaner way of doing…

How to add pastebin to sensitivity calculator command

Hey @mysticpurple! If you had put a little bit more care to your post I would have answered you sooner, I’ve postponed reading you just because of how it looks, yet the solution to your problem is simple. I even have a better solution than what you’re currently thinking of, what about a command that automatically set the correct value for your m_yaw variable depending on the game you’re playing, no need to specify it when you call the command? So basically you keep using the command like you a…

[Sarioah]

You should be able to do a someVar = $(urlfetch json https://pastebin.com/raw/xxxxxxxxx); within the eval, then access the data you need through the someVar variable. The “json” portion of the urlfetch is important, as it parses the resulting message straight to a json object rather than a string, which bypasses the usual 400 character limit.

[vlamish]

I’ve seen some of your previous posts on the topic (before I made this post) and tried to incorporate the logic from those, but I think my issue is that I know actual nothing about this. It seems like my current issue is I can define variables, but I don’t know what to do to make it execute. Here’s what I have so far:

$(eval game = ‘$(twitch vlamish {{game}})’; ID = $(urlfetch json https:// pastebin . com/raw/LUeiDFh9); )

the pastebin:
{“Overwatch 2”:“testname1”,
“Apex Legends”:“testname2”,
“World of Warcraft”,“testname3”}

Apologize for having to break the pastebin link, the site wouldn’t let me post with a link. So ideally someone would use the command and when I’m playing overwatch, the output would simply be “testname1”.

I appreciate any help, of course.

[Emily]

It wont work because you have to tell the JSON in your paste which game to look at, try this:

$(eval const game = '$(twitch $(channel) "{{game}}")'; const json = $(urlfetch json https://pastebin.com/raw/XXXXXXXX); json[game];)

Don’t forget to replace the paste ID with yours, but no need to replace anything else.

You’ll also need to fix your JSON: after "World of Warcraft" it should be a colon (:), not a comma (,).

[vlamish]

Thank you so much! that last “json[game]” part is what I wasn’t aware of. I’ve got it working with the test.