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

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-shows-up-in-streams-followed-whenever-a-new-vod-playlist-video-starts/3554>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [October 8, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-shows-up-in-streams-followed-whenever-a-new-vod-playlist-video-starts/3554 "2015-10-08T15:20:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomh117](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@tomh117](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/tomh117)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-shows-up-in-streams-followed-whenever-a-new-vod-playlist-video-starts/3554/1 "2015-10-08T15:20:17Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Mellow](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/mellow/32/616_2.png) [@Mellow](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Mellow)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-shows-up-in-streams-followed-whenever-a-new-vod-playlist-video-starts/3554/2 "2015-10-08T15:25:49Z")

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Perhaps try [https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/followed?stream\_type=live](https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/followed?stream_type=live)

> [@API Endpoints for Offline Playlists](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/api-endpoints-for-offline-playlists/3523/3):
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> 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](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.

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**Author:** ![tomh117](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@tomh117](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/tomh117)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-shows-up-in-streams-followed-whenever-a-new-vod-playlist-video-starts/3554/3 "2015-10-08T15:36:09Z")

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

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

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2opxh93rbxzdn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-shows-up-in-streams-followed-whenever-a-new-vod-playlist-video-starts/3554/4 "2015-11-07T15:36:11Z")

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