Hi, We recently noticed that the Get Users endpoint ( https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference/#get-users ) does not have the total follower count. This endpoint is more or less the equivalent of the Channels endpoint in v5, so it is weird that this has been changed. This is generally problematic d…

Quadriplicate post [image] Helix - Follower Count API Hey, 3-4 months ago, it was announced, that the follower count will find it’s way back into Helix. Isn’t there anything new, or am i missing anything? [image] No Follower/Following Count on Helix A…

Sorry. I will remove this post if I can!

Basically, know issue, dunno when or if it will change at the moment

Yeah. This just seems like a weird choice on their part, since this is sorta a bedrock of most people’s use-cases for the API and it will require more API calls at the end of the day.

[image] janson0: weird choice on their part More a case of “it’s not performant to offer it in helix right now we need to fix some internal stuff first” [image] Regarding Data in Kraken Not Present in New Twitch API However, adding it back into the User data object will greatly impact per…

You can get the total follower count using the User Follows API! https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference#get-users-follows

@geardrops Yeah, but a single call to get the followers for a single user could also be enhanced. See my suggestion for example: [image] Total follower count in users endpoint API I know, that there’s an endpoint to get the number of followers for a single user. However,…

Hey @geardrops ! Thanks for responding. Hope things are going well on your end since we chatted at TwitchCon. The challenge there is a developer doubles their API calls if they need to update a user’s follower count to display it or perform some logic based on the follower count. At scale (and/or po…

Ah yes, I understand your pain point. It would be easier to batch 100 users to update follow counts, than to have to call one at a time. We are trying to balance keeping the user call efficient and accurate with these sorts of pain points. The hope was that at least with Webhooks you could keep the …

Thanks for looking into this @geardrops , for those of us that do any soft of analytics work being able to bulk get follower counts is pretty vital. Is the performance issue specific to it being in the user request or is it more of a general issue with calculating the count? Much appreciated!

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BarryCarlyon April 23, 2018, 4:49pm 6

More a case of “it’s not performant to offer it in helix right now we need to fix some internal stuff first”

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Follower Count exposed on users endpoint API	4	739	November 12, 2021
Total follower count in users endpoint API	6	3571	February 22, 2018
Helix - Follower Count API	4	6235	February 18, 2018
No Follower/Following Count on Helix API	2	2761	December 3, 2017
[Feature API Request] List of followers API	1	1545	March 26, 2018

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