Getting stream title, followers, etc. to show up in HTML?

[cloneruler]

Hello, i’m currently working on a site for a streamer, and when it comes to this API, I have almost no clue as to what i’m doing.

On lirik’s website - http://lirik.tv/ - He has his title updated live. Can someone explain to me how to do this? Mainly the back end part is what I need.

[sundheden]

The API is pretty well documented here https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API

As far as retrieving data from it, I personally prefer PHP (because that’s the only thing I know ), here is a simple example for the things you asked about:

<?php

    $json = file_get_contents("https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/lirik");
    $api = json_decode($json, true);
    
    echo "Stream title: ".$api['status']."<br>\n";
    echo "Game: ".$api['game']."<br>\n";
    echo "Followers: ".$api['followers']."<br>\n";

?>

[cloneruler]

Ok, I prefer PHP as well thank you for this, this should help alot.

[cloneruler]

So, one more question: how would I use this? Like can you give me an html example as well?

[george]

You’d have to do it with Javascript. jQuery’s getJSON or ajax methods are fairly easy to use if you are not too experienced with JS.

[cloneruler]

Oh alright. Thank you guys so much

[cloneruler]

Can you give me an example of this?

[night]

You can read the jQuery documentation for examples of using their methods: http://api.jquery.com/jquery.getjson/