Channel shows up in /streams/followed whenever a new VOD playlist video starts

[tomh117]

I wrote my own notification tool that polls /kraken/streams/followed for streams and shows me a notification whenever someone new goes live and noticed one streamer going live every few hours.

But he wasn’t live, checking out his channel I saw he was using the new VOD playlist function on his channel. He would show up every few hours in the API data, but only for a really short amount of time, usually only for 1 request.

I guess that’s whenever a new video started playing or maybe at random times, not sure. The channel was eatmydiction1.

Is that expected behaviour? I wouldn’t expect VODs to show there. I also saw some people in his chat beeing confused by notifications they got, guess that’s not only happening to me.

[Mellow]

Perhaps try https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/followed?stream_type=live

API Endpoints for Offline Playlists

Adding stream_type=all as a parameter to /streams will return the stream object for live and playlists streams. There is a is_playlist boolean under the stream object which will indicate if it’s a playlist or not. Ex: https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/fishstix?stream_type=all Possible values of stream_type appear to be all, playlist, or live and it seems to work on all the /streams endpoints.

[tomh117]

Ohh cool, thank you very much, gonna try that!

Guess that’s not documented yet in the official github API thing.