IRC User List returning HTTP 503

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I am running a bot that needs to refresh its userlist every 5 min.
Because the NAME event is only sent with < 1000 online users and JOIN and PART events are pretty confusing, i am using the HTTP endpoint:
http://tmi.twitch.tv/group/user/<stream>/chatters

The problem is that a HTTP GET request is getting a 503 (Service unavailable) or 502 (Bad Gateway) Error every ~thrid time.

I first thought that the request should be made on the speific event endpoint when larger events are handled but this error also occures within 200 or 15.000 users.

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Just deal with it.

The rest of us do…

It 500’s quite often

Join/part also has the 1k limit

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Also, the tmi API is undocumented and considered unsupported. You use it at your own risk, so like Barry said, you “just deal with it”

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Ye, that’s no big deal because every successful request is being cached by my program.
I just thought of some helpful tips like other request headers.
Despite everything I’m thakful for this endpoint :wink:

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