Problems with users API with helix

API
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Hey everyone,

I am attempting to pull in user information by login and am running into some trouble. When I run the following: https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users?login=Xpecial - I get back mostly what I expect {"data":[{"id":"30080741","login":"xpecial","display_name":"Xpecial","type":"","broadcaster_type":"partner","description":"Info","profile_image_url":"url","offline_image_url":"","view_count":24286677}]}1

I am attempting to figure out why the random 1 is returning at the end, I am new to this but it seems odd.

I am also attempting to pull in multiple users in one request with: https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users?login=Xpecial,BunnyFuFuu - in this case I instead receive {"data":[]}1

Does anyone know why I am getting the 1 at the end of both? Additionally, am I doing something wrong with my request for multiple users?

Thank you for any help you can provide with this!

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Could you provide some code of how you make your API calls. It’s kinda hard to troubleshoot without that.

From the docs:

Request parameters are &-repeated (e.g., &login=&login=&login=), not comma-separated as in Twitch API v5.

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Of course I miss the obvious information at the top of the page… Thank you for pointing me to that.

Regarding the call to it this is what I am sending:
`function get_newtwitchapi_curl($url) {
global $appID, $appSecret;
$curlHeader = array(
"Client-ID: " . $appID,
"Authorization: " . $appSecret
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $curlHeader);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;

}`

4

I found the problem, was missing: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

5

Without that option $data was being set to true and the curl response was being echo’ed out as it arrived.

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