Is there a problem with Twitch API atm? Randomly getting
503 Server Error: Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity for url: https://tmi.twitch.tv/hosts?as3=t&include_logins=1&host=32787655)
?
That URL is not a documented endpoint
As such it can change or break at anytime
And has no obligations to be working for you to use
There is no documented or supported endpoint for third parties to get a list of Hosts
uservoice for a supported endpoint https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310213-developers/suggestions/41773936-hosts-in-helix
o_O URL has worked for literally years.
It’s still not documented.
Which means we are not supposed to be using it
Everything under tmi.twitch.tv is undocumented. So it can change or break at any time since it’s not documented for us to use, so we are not supposed to be using it, even though many people do
Working fine here
I meant from an API perspective. ie Twitch will not pull that one away too.
It’s documented
So any changes or removals of this endpoint should be announced.
I understand where you’re coming from but simply announcing it isn’t the problem… You could very well change the data model such that any inference magically becomes void… because it wasn’t documented. “type” for example. No idea why there is only one value.
“You”? I am not Twitch/Twitch staff.
When helix was introduced, we had reruns in there but it broke a long time ago.
So Twitch just removed type differentiation. And that was announced on the forums.
It’s also being bug tracked
And we have a Uservoice for the functionality here
type is documented
It just only has one value at time of writing
Technically “you” still could 
It was meant more general.
Don’t really care about reruns or hosted though that explains some odd cases where reruns were showing. Good to know.
It’s documented for now but any inferences based on it may not. If for some boneheaded reason Twitch decided hosted meant live and you filter based on the oposit, it will break.
Then that’s a bug that should be reported to the github so it can be resolved.
Or a change that would be documented or announced
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