# Announcing the new Get Ingest Servers endpoint and updates to ingest URLs

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/announcing-the-new-get-ingest-servers-endpoint-and-updates-to-ingest-urls/29549>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [December 18, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/announcing-the-new-get-ingest-servers-endpoint-and-updates-to-ingest-urls/29549 "2020-12-18T00:20:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jbulava](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/jbulava/32/6777_2.png) [@jbulava](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/jbulava)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/announcing-the-new-get-ingest-servers-endpoint-and-updates-to-ingest-urls/29549/1 "2020-12-18T00:20:46Z")

</div>

Today we are announcing a new endpoint – [Get Ingest Servers](https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/video-broadcast/reference/#get-ingest-servers) – to allow applications to programmatically fetch a list of Ingest Server URLs to enable use cases that broadcast directly to Twitch. While this functionality already exists in the v5 endpoint [Get Ingest Server List](https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/v5/reference/ingests#get-ingest-server-list), Get Ingest Servers provides this functionality as the long-term supported method. If your application uses the existing API v5 version, it is recommended that you migrate to this new version.

Additionally, starting **January 12, 2021** , both the new Get Ingest Servers endpoint and the v5 Get Ingest Server List will begin returning URLs using the domain `live-video.net`, as opposed to `twitch.tv`. If your application performs checks to require these URLs broadcast to `twitch.tv` domains, please update them accordingly.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BarryCarlyon](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/barrycarlyon/32/253_2.png) [@BarryCarlyon](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BarryCarlyon)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/announcing-the-new-get-ingest-servers-endpoint-and-updates-to-ingest-urls/29549/2 "2020-12-18T00:21:58Z")

</div>

So does that mean that ingests with `twitch.tv` in the URL are deprecated? And intended to be replaced by `live-video.net` at some point?

If they are deprecated will there be a broadcast to _all streamers_ about the URL changes?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jbulava](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/jbulava/32/6777_2.png) [@jbulava](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/jbulava)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/announcing-the-new-get-ingest-servers-endpoint-and-updates-to-ingest-urls/29549/3 "2020-12-19T05:55:19Z")

</div>

To add more clarification:

- All existing ingest servers are already available at `<server>.contribute.live-video.net`.
- All existing ingest servers will continue to also be available at `live-<server>.twitch.tv`.
- Ingest servers that we create after the specified date will not be available at `live-<server>.twitch.tv`.

As such, wide communicate to broadcasters should not be necessary.