How to get my Moderator Id?

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Hello Folks,

I want to load all chatters from a Twitch Channel, this Channel added me as Moderator.
I thought my User Id is also my Moderator Id, but this is obviously wrong.

How can i get my mod id?
Or maybe my function has issues?

def get_chatters(self, broadcaster_id, moderator_id):
        # Endpoint to get chatters from the Twitch API
        endpoint = self._config_loader.get_endpoint_chatters()

        # Set the headers with the access token
        headers = {
            "Client-ID": self._config_loader.get_client_id(),
            "Authorization": f"Bearer {self._config_loader.get_auth()}",
        }

        # Parameters for the request
        params = {
            "moderator_id": moderator_id,
            "broadcaster_id": broadcaster_id,
        }

        try:
            # Make the API request
            response = requests.get(endpoint, headers=headers, params=params)

            # Check if the request was successful
            if response.status_code == 200:
                data = response.json()
                # Process the data to get chatters from the response
                chatters = data.get("data", [])
                return chatters

            # If the request failed, raise an exception or handle the error accordingly
            response.raise_for_status()

        except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
            raise Exception(f"Error while fetching chatters: {e}")

Hope someone can help me.

Kind Regards
Tobias

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All “ids” can be gotten from the Get Users Endpoint

Different labels are used on endpoints to describe relationships between the entities involved in a API call

So my

  • user_id is 15185913
  • broadcaster_id is 15185913
  • moderator_id is 15185913

and so on

So as a moderator of cohhcarnage for this call I would use

https://api.twitch.tv/helix/chat/chatters?broadcaster_id=26610234&moderator_id=15185913

With a oAuth token of type “user” and the scope moderator:read:chatters attached

What is the error you are getting back? The response body should include a descriptive message to describe the problem

The usual suspect is you generated a client_credentials/app access token.
Or your user token is not for you and/or doesn’t have the needed scope

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Hello BarryCarlyon,

Thanks for the fast response.
I get this message:
Exception: Error while fetching chatters: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://api.twitch.tv/helix/chat/chatters?moderator_id=79261065&broadcaster_id=495244972

You wrote:

The usual suspect is you generated a client_credentials/app access token.
Or your user token is not for you and/or doesn’t have the needed scope

I created an App Token for the Twitch API with Postman, to get the token i used my Client Id and my Secret. Both i got from the Twitch Developer Website.
The Broadcaster set reading rights for my User, i should have the rights to read his viewers.

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This is half the information it’s Just the HTTP Code

Whats the body of the response

App Token’s (aka Client Credentials) cannot be used to call this API you need a USER TOKEN as documented - Reference | Twitch Developers

See: Authentication | Twitch Developers

The normal flow used here would be the code flow

App Token’s do not represent a user.

You do, but it sounds like the generated token does not

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Sorry i am still learning English and the documentation is a little bit difficult for me.
Message from the Body:

b'{"error":"Unauthorized","status":401,"message":"Missing User OAUTH Token"}

What i understand now from the documentation is, i need to create an app token, what i did.
Now i need to authorize my user and get a token for him too, right?

A few days ago i tried to authorize my user, but the website redirected me to a localhost and there was no code.
Then i tried it with Postman, but got always error messages back that something was missing.
I don’t know if’s important for you to help me, my application is written in python and it’s only a console application.

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No you need a USER token which is what the rror is saying

oAuth expects a server to be running as your redirect URI (which is defaulted to localhost if you never change it)

The basics of user oAuth is

  • User visits your website
  • User clicks the link to take them to Twitch
  • User accepts (or declines) the link
  • If they accept they are redirected to your redirect URI with a ?code
  • Your server exchanges the ?code= for an access and refresh token

Then you can adapt the oAuth process to run headless.

  • Start the app
  • App provides a link for the user to copy/paste into a browser
  • User is taken to Twitch
  • User accepts (or declines) the link
  • If they accept they are redirected to your redirect URI with a ?code
  • User copy and pastes the ?code into your app and the app does the exchange

This is a NodeJS example for “headless” oAuth https://github.com/BarryCarlyon/twitch_misc/tree/main/authentication/user_access_without_server

Then you need to figure out a way to obtain a user token to provide the user token to your application so it can operate

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Thank you so much!
I will try the headless approach and hope it works for me.
Still much to learn for me :sweat_smile:

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