Eventsub events for sub/resub

[raylanprime]

Hi!

I have an application where I need to activate a stream overlay whenever a user subscribes. I chose to use EventSub in my serverless backend and consume the " channel.subscribe" event to get the first subscription of a user and the “channel.subscription.message” to get the renewals when the user shares the message (yes, in renewals I only want to get it if he shares the message).

The problem is that when a user renews his subscription I am receiving 2 events, one in “channel.subscription” (I believe it is at the time of payment) and another in “channel.subscription.message”, which is what I really need .

Is there any way to identify this first “channel.subscription” event in these renewal cases? I couldn’t find anything that provides me with this identification, because this first payload comes exactly as a 1 month subscription, without the “cumulative_months”, and when the user shares the message I receive the “cumulative_months” information correctly.

{
    "broadcaster_user_id": "123",
    "user_name": "acb",
    "user_input": "",
    "message": "",
    "is_anonymous": false,
    "bits": 0,
    "tier": "1000",
    "is_gift": false,
    "cumulative_months": 1,
    "reward": {}
}

{
    "broadcaster_user_id": "123",
    "user_name": "acb",
    "user_input": "",
    "message": {
        "text": "",
        "emotes": null
    },
    "is_anonymous": false,
    "bits": 0,
    "tier": "1000",
    "is_gift": false,
    "cumulative_months": 13,
    "reward": {}
}

[BarryCarlyon]

@raylanprime

Is there any way to identify this first “channel.subscription” event in these renewal cases?

TLDR: no

channel.subscribe topic is “user changed from non sub to a sub”, regardless of what reason that is for. Not a direct reflection of an event in chat where as channel.subscription.message is “user sent a message in chat as part of their resub notification”

So for prime resubs you’ll get them at the same time ish.
But for regular people restaritng a sub you’ll have un1known time between the duplicates

There are a couple of user voices open in this regard to figure out ways to improve eventsub for overlay providers.

@raylanprime

(I believe it is at the time of payment)

Theres where you are mistaken this topic is for the user changed from non sub to sub for any reason. not only for the first payment the user makes.

Hope that clears it up!

[raylanprime]

Understood, thanks for the clarification!