Patron Twitch overlay connection! (Patreon)

Hellooo! I spent most of today pulling my hair out trying to make something work that I've wanted for ages and finally stumbled upon a half-baked but workable solution.

If you access the link posted above it will take you to a patron only post on my website. Once you authenticate, you'll find a link to a google sheet. You can add your twitch name to this sheet and my stream overlay will be able to read it!

This means I can do extra things with patreon supporters on stream. Currently I make your text orange on the overlay and give you a viewer sprite with a little crown. 

I'll be adding a !patron command to remind folk in streams of the link, as stuff is hard to find around here.

PS. If you're wondering why it's a two stage process and I don't just link the sheet here, well it turns out patreon posts aren't particularly in and of themselves secure. There exist content scraping sites that use the accounts of willing patrons to collect exclusive posts. It sucks, but people do it. And people have done it here in the past. You'll find many creators distribute content via messages, mass emails, or other platforms (I use itch.io for most things now) to avoid this.

Not that this method I've used here is technically any more secure from someone who really wanted to share the sheet link around, but they'd have to go to more specific effort to ruin the fun rather than having the content automatically scraped by a piracy website.