I had used https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/user before and checked if channel[“stream”] was null to determine if a streamer was live or not, but that no longer seems to be working. Is there a new way to do this? Do I need an API key now? Thanks for any help.

That’s still how you check if the user is live. You have to pass in a Client-ID though. I’m on mobile at TwitchCon and can’t provide the link directly. If you search, you can find the blog post that shows how to do this.

This one [image] Client-ID Requirement FAQs API In case you missed it, the Kraken API will require a Client-ID as of August 8th, 2016. Read the blog for more details. Here are a few FAQs that I thought I’d address in one place: Is the Client-ID required for all API calls…

Do we need to use the API key to check if a streamer is live?

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14wojciechal September 30, 2016, 10:50pm 3

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