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 s…

Call Get Streams [image] Reference Twitch Developer tools and services to integrate Twitch into your development or create interactive experience on twitch.tv. If the channel is live you get an array with data If the channel is not live you get an empty dat…

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

The user_id is the broadcaster_id Different labels are used to help describe relationships between resources and entities

Thanks a lot mate you saved me a lot of time :+1: This is the most user un-friendly api I’ve ever used :smiley:

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