Live stream oembed

API
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Hi everyone,

hope that you can help me out.

I try to get data about the live stream and videos.

For videos like (https://www.twitch.tv/riotgames/v/72749628) it’s working https://api.twitch.tv/v5/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitch.tv%2Friotgames%2Fv%2F72749628 .

Now I need the same thing for live stream (https://www.twitch.tv/riotgames), but oembed is not working for a live stream https://api.twitch.tv/v5/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitch.tv%2Friotgames .

Any suggestions how to get data for a live stream?

Thank you and have a nice day

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if the stream is live you can get a stream object from Reference | Twitch Developers if it’s not live your’ll get a blank/empty response

https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_login=riotgames

returns:

{
“data”: ,
“pagination”: {}
}

Currently for example so no stream to embed.

You might want to look at Embedding Twitch | Twitch Developers instead of embedding which’ll work a little better rather than relying on oembed?

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Thank you so much for the respond. Yeah I looked at the api and it looks good.

Still do you maybe know if it’s possible to get it via oembed?

Thank you

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It seems that Twitch hasn’t configured oEmbed for live streams just pre-recorded content. Saves showing a embed for a not live stream I suppose. And using “Twitch Everywhere” as documented here Embedding Twitch | Twitch Developers you get a better experience for the end user as you embed the right player

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Thank you very much for the replay. Will work with API for now. Hope that they will add support for live streams as well

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