# How to get commercial API approval?

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-commercial-api-approval/64257>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [August 28, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-commercial-api-approval/64257 "2025-08-28T14:14:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![benmrn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc348/32.png) [@benmrn](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/benmrn)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-commercial-api-approval/64257/1 "2025-08-28T14:14:03Z")

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Hey everyone 👋

I’m a PM working for a social discovery app (1M+ users), and we want to implement a new feature where our users can Oauth with their Twitch account in order to see which shared interests they have with others (example: “You both follow @pokimane”). We’d basically use **user:read:follows** only (read-only).

We already implemented similar features with other third party platforms, but I don’t see any way to request commercial approval with Twitch.

1. Is there an official way to request **commercial approval** for this type of use case?

2. How do companies normally get written confirmation that their API integration is compliant with Twitch policy?

3. For apps with scale (millions of users), what’s the process for asking for **higher API rate limits**?

I already have a registered app in the console but I don’t see a way to raise this with Twitch formally.

Any pointers from folks who’ve gone through this (or from Twitch staff) would be hugely appreciated 🙏

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Xemdo](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/xemdo/32/29273_2.png) [@Xemdo](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Xemdo)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-commercial-api-approval/64257/2 "2025-08-28T18:24:02Z")

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Hi! Can you send an email with this request to [developers@twitch.tv](mailto:developers@twitch.tv)?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![benmrn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc348/32.png) [@benmrn](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/benmrn)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-commercial-api-approval/64257/3 "2025-08-29T13:10:51Z")

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> [@Xemdo](#):
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> [developers@twitch.tv](mailto:developers@twitch.tv)

I just did, thank you for your help !

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2opxh93rbxzdn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/how-to-get-commercial-api-approval/64257/4 "2025-09-28T13:11:34Z")

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