Regarding the many previous questions about an API function to gift subs

[tomwithtime]

Hey, this is just one quick question. Google and the forum search suggest that this has been asked and answered - the API cannot and will not support anything related to money transactions.

I would like 1 definitive answer for myself and any other future googlers - is there any workaround that would be permitted in this area for any context? For a specific use case that I have in mind, the flow would be navigating to a stream, logging in as myself, and giving a gift subscription to a particular user. The context being there is no exchange or intent outside of my own giving of subscriptions.

Could that process be aided in any way whether it’s a browser extension doing a little or headless browser doing a lot? In a practical example, there are a few users I would like to regularly gift subscriptions to on a channel other than my own.

If that use case still breaks any terms of service I’m fine with handling that manually, I just want to avoid getting in trouble and remove any room for inconclusive speculation, thanks!

[Dist]

No one here is a legal expert so we can’t give a definitive answer.

Using undocumented endpoints and first party tokens is likely a violation of the developer agreement, and because this is something involving payment processes it’s quite a serious thing so my advice would be not to attempt this and to gift any subs manually.

What you could do is submit a feature request on UserVoice and perhaps Twitch would consider it if there’s sufficient use case to outweigh the potential security issues. Developers: Top (553 ideas) – Twitch UserVoice