How to find out if a channel is live using the API?

[Peter_Utekal]

It is ridiculous that such simple task is completely unclear from the documentation, but I need help.

I need to be able to check if a certain channel is live or not.

What would the best way to do this be?

I tried using the EventSub, but after building the (ridiculously) complicated solution for such simple task I ran into issue with deleting the subscriptions.

[BarryCarlyon]

Call Get Streams

Reference

If the channel is live you get an array with data
If the channel is not live you get an empty data array

[Peter_Utekal]

Nice, thanks. What exactly is the user_id though? if I get channel information I only get broadcaster_id

[BarryCarlyon]

The user_id is the broadcaster_id

Different labels are used to help describe relationships between resources and entities

[Peter_Utekal]

Thanks a lot mate you saved me a lot of time This is the most user un-friendly api I’ve ever used

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