I’m trying to build a wevsite with twitch embedded. I want to check whether the channel I want to display is currently streaming to decide whether to play a video of the current stream. Playing the current stream is no issue. But the checking part is giving me a head ache. I tried using some old cod…

Use the Get Streams endpoint https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference#get-streams You don’t need an access token, a client id will work fine, as shown in the example. Just make a request to that endpoint, with your client id as the Client-ID header, and you can specify one or more channels using t…

How do I put the ID in the header using JS? GET https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams/<channel>client-ID=uo6dggojyb8d6soh92zknwmi5ej1q2?

You can’t put it in the URL like that. Just google whatever request library you’re using and how to set headers in it.

I tried using the XMLHttpRequst but I’m not sure how to use it. function reqListener(){ console.log(this.responseText); } var XML = new XMLHttpRequest(); XML.addEventListener("load", reqListener); XML.open("GET", "https://ap…

[image] Reference Twitch Developer tools and services to integrate Twitch into your development or create interactive experience on twitch.tv. https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams/?user_id=CHANNELID or https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams/?user_login=USERN…

Yes, but I’ll still need to send the client ID in the header and I think that’s the part that’s going wrong. Correcting my code as described returns undefined for the call console.log(data); var XML = new XMLHttpRequest(); XML.open("GET", "https://api.twitch.tv…

[image] XMLHttpRequest: setRequestHeader() method - Web APIs | MDN The XMLHttpRequest method setRequestHeader() sets the value of an HTTP request header. When using setRequestHeader(), you must call it after calling open(), but before calling send(). If this method is called several …

Thank you very much! var XML = new XMLHttpRequest(); XML.open("GET", "https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams/?user_id=sugarincubes"); XML.setRequestHeader('Client-ID', '<clientID>'); XML.send(); XML.onload = function () { conso…

[image] M_Lehmann: XML.open(“GET”, “ https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams/?user_id=sugarincubes ”) Is incorrect For a username it’s XML.open(“GET”, “ https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams/?user_login=sugarincubes ”) Please read the docs and what we wrote here [image] API Authe…

I think I did indeed do everything according to your replies and the doc but still only receive data=[] var XML = new XMLHttpRequest(); var response = null; XML.open("GET", "https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams/?user_login=sugarincubes"); XML.setReque…

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BarryCarlyon October 5, 2019, 11:56am 6

https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams/?user_id=CHANNELID

https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams/?user_login=USERNAME

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