Searching for any game seems to have random results. This has been working for the past year or so, but within the last week at some point it broke.
api.twitch.tv/kraken/search/streams?q=Ultra%20Street%20Fighter%20IV - This one resolves correctly, it only returns that game.
api.twitch.tv/kraken/search/streams?q=Tekken%20Tag%20Tournament%202 This one brings back some of the correct result, but also some streams that aren’t related at all including FIFA and Hearthstone.
It gets even crazier, because some channels (currently twitch.tv/capcomfighters and twitch.tv/crosscountertv are being returned for multiple games.
Here is my output: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fighters (in the right-hand sidebar)
Here is a copy of part of the api call at the time that I’m making this topic
url: https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/search/streams?q=Soul%20Calibur%20V
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