pytwitcherapi.chat.message.Tag

class pytwitcherapi.chat.message.Tag(name, value=None, vendor=None)

Bases: object

An irc v3 tag

Specification for tags. A tag will associate metadata with a message.

To get tags in twitch chat, you have to specify it in the `capability negotiation<http://ircv3.net/specs/core/capability-negotiation-3.1.html>`_.

__init__(name, value=None, vendor=None)

Initialize a new tag called name

Parameters:

• name (str) – The name of the tag
• value (str | None) – The value of a tag
• vendor (str | tag) – the vendor for vendor specific tags

Raises:

None

Methods

__init__(name[, value, vendor])	Initialize a new tag called name
from_str(tagstring)	Create a tag by parsing the tag of a message

classmethod from_str(tagstring)

Create a tag by parsing the tag of a message

Parameters:tagstring (str) – A tag string described in the irc protocol Returns:A tag Return type:Tag Raises:None