Hi, so I’ll start off with I have no idea what I’m doing, I am trying to do a lot of things. I have no experience with server requests but I am trying to make a discord bot that will monitor a group of people to see when they are online on twitch and post them to a server. So the part that I am not understanding at all is how to make a request form the twitch api in order to get the JSON of there status. I am currently looking at this link https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/v5/reference/streams/#get-stream-by-user, and it shows this snippet
curl -H 'Accept: application/vnd.twitchtv.v5+json' \
-H 'Client-ID: uo6dggojyb8d6soh92zknwmi5ej1q2' \
-X GET 'https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/44322889'
So from my understanding I need to submit a request to the api following that forat with replacing the userid with the channel I would like to check. However, I have no idea how to do that. I copied the following java code
public static String executePost(String channelName){
URL url;
HttpURLConnection connection = null;
try{
//create connection
url = new URL(("https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams?channel=" + channelName));
connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
connection.setUseCaches(false);
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setDoOutput(true);
//Send request
DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(
connection.getOutputStream());
//Get response
InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
String line;
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
while((line = rd.readLine()) != null){
response.append(line);
response.append('\r');
}
rd.close();
return response.toString();
} catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
} finally {
if (connection != null) {
connection.disconnect();
}
}
}
So currently, I am trying to make an http request from java in order to get the JSON, but I have also read you that you need an authentication in the request, which I have no idea how I would do that. I set up my twitch application and have access to the client ID and secret ID, I just don’t know what to do with them. If anyone can give me an example or point me to sources to help learn more about this, I would be greatly appreciative!