This is the code for a 24/7 Twitch stream, which is live at the current time of publication no longer live.

The setup.sh script allows this script easily to be customized to suit the interests of any other normie who wants to stream content.

Run the following command to install the necessary dependencies.

pip install internetarchive tweepy

The script also relies on ffmpeg for streaming. The latest ffmpeg static builds support hardware x264 compression. The versions available from standard repositories (< 3.0) lack this feature, a feature I did make use of to reduce latency.

If running someone else's binaries makes you queezy, note well that building ffmpeg from source, while possible, has not worked for me, since the default dependencies are not all linked by default.

After installing ffmpeg, you may or may not need to edit fstream_file.sh with the location of your ffmpeg binary.

This script assumes your Twitch stream key and Twitter OAuth keys are stored in /etc at the following locations:

• /etc/twitchapikey
• /etc/tweepy_akey
• /etc/tweepy_asecret
• /etc/tweepy_ckey
• /etc/tweepy_csecret

You can acquire these keys from the Twitch and Twitter accounts you'll be using to broadcast your stream. Write them to the above locations.

By default, normie-vaganza will tweet out the title of the video that's currently playing. To disable this, simply change $USING_TWITTER to false in moviebroadcasting.sh.

The name of your project and Twitch account are requested during the first run of setup.sh; this value can be changed later by editing the PROJ_NAME variable across scripts.

The content downloaded for streaming is determined by the search parameters given at searchparams.cfg. The syntax for these searches is documented on the internetarchive documentation page.

I've hardcoded a few exceptions into dlia.sh which get turned automatically into a badstuff.txt with the identifiers for all the files I don't want, even though they match the search parameters.

I've chosen to get videos that meet the criteria for public domain or other creative commons licensing. In the future, the filter may be tightened further so that only public domain videos are streamed. I am not sure whether or not tweeting what's "Now Playing" meets the requirements for attribution.

Twitch's terms of service do not allow for the streaming of copyrighted content.

Simply run moviebroadcasting.sh inside a screen or tmux session. The script will run continuously without requiring input. The script pulls new content as needed from the web and deletes videos after they've been viewed.

The application automatically montiors the utilized space of the filesystem /srv resides on and will not pull additional content after a 90% threshold is breeched.