# Firehose? How to get authentication token?

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/firehose-how-to-get-authentication-token/10818>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [June 26, 2017, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/firehose-how-to-get-authentication-token/10818 "2017-06-26T08:04:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/firehose-how-to-get-authentication-token/10818/11 "2017-06-26T14:29:38Z")

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Well, was using it to hunt for keywords like my username to find what chat it’s being used, then drop in and say hi like batman.  
Or used to find a keyword (deepbot) and to test if it is a user in need of support of said bot.

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