Please add "url" or "login" to the stream for "get streams" NEW API

[BarryCarlyon]

@chulman444

Edit: The link to the api documentation is ‘flagged as spam’ apparently and throws “you cannot post a link to that host”.

Yeah you tripped the anti spam system by being a new user and trying to add a ton of links to the same domain too quickly.

@chulman444

So, First thing . If I want to get the channel url of my “followed channels” and display the current thumbnail with the ‘new API’, I have to use 3 APIs?

No, under Helix. if the Stream is live

@chulman444

Use “get users follows”:

• get-users-follows

to get the user id. Use “get streams”

• get-streams

That’s it.

If the stream is not live you cannot get the title/game/thumbnail via Helix/New API.

This data is also not in the Helix Users API. If you want the Title/Game off a offline user you have to resort to Kraken/V5

@chulman444

Second thing . There is no ‘front end url’ that works with user id, the integer values?

Correct

@chulman444

Third thing. Can I expect support for any of adding ‘login name’ to “follows API” or “streams API”, or the ‘front end url’ that works with user id (I guess this is ‘site suggestion’?) for the complete helix/new API? If so, when?

Hopefully, when don’t know, when Helix first “broke” and started sending the “wrong” username we reported it, and it’s not been fixed yet.