# Streams API Suddenly stopped working for me

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/streams-api-suddenly-stopped-working-for-me/9953>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [April 12, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/streams-api-suddenly-stopped-working-for-me/9953 "2017-04-12T14:44:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![darknessindreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b782af/32.png) [@darknessindreams](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/darknessindreams)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/streams-api-suddenly-stopped-working-for-me/9953/1 "2017-04-12T14:44:11Z")

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I promote Twitch TV on my website by showing a line of people who are currently live streaming the Pokemon Trading Card Game Online. I use the api call  
[https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/search/streams?limit=25&offset=0&query=Pokémon+Trading+Card+Game+Online](https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/search/streams?limit=25&offset=0&query=Pok%C3%A9mon+Trading+Card+Game+Online)  
and it has suddenly (last couple of days I think) started returning zero results even though there are people streaming.  
It does not return an error, just an empty data set.

Please note the name of the game in Twitch is Pokémon Trading Card Game with the é  
I also tried  
Pokemon instead of Pok%C3%A9mon and  
Pokémon  
And encodeURI  
and  
other games as well and nothing returns a result ☹  
Does anyone else have an example of this call that is returning results so I can continue to bang my head against it?

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**Author:** ![DallasNChains](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/dallasnchains/32/1608_2.png) [@DallasNChains](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/DallasNChains)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/streams-api-suddenly-stopped-working-for-me/9953/2 "2017-04-12T15:03:02Z")

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I’ve asked the team about this. Will keep you posted!

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**Author:** ![Tidwell](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/tidwell/32/2682_2.png) [@Tidwell](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Tidwell)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/streams-api-suddenly-stopped-working-for-me/9953/3 "2017-04-12T15:09:20Z")

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+1 - This has broken multiple apps I maintain.

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**Author:** ![darknessindreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b782af/32.png) [@darknessindreams](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/darknessindreams)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/streams-api-suddenly-stopped-working-for-me/9953/4 "2017-04-13T01:34:52Z")

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And it’s working again… :-/

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**Author:** ![DallasNChains](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/dallasnchains/32/1608_2.png) [@DallasNChains](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/DallasNChains)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/streams-api-suddenly-stopped-working-for-me/9953/5 "2017-04-13T15:45:20Z")

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Correct. The team corrected the error in the API based on this report. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Tidwell](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/tidwell/32/2682_2.png) [@Tidwell](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Tidwell)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/streams-api-suddenly-stopped-working-for-me/9953/6 "2017-04-14T02:54:14Z")

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This is broken again. ☹

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**Author:** ![daniel\_knugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@daniel\_knugs](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/daniel_knugs)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/streams-api-suddenly-stopped-working-for-me/9953/7 "2017-04-24T03:41:32Z")

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Any word on this problem? I am developing an app and am able to return results when searching Channels but get an empty array when searching Streams. Thank you!

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**Author:** ![darknessindreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b782af/32.png) [@darknessindreams](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/darknessindreams)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/streams-api-suddenly-stopped-working-for-me/9953/8 "2017-04-24T13:18:04Z")

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Yep, it’s stopped working again.  
What up Dallas?

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2opxh93rbxzdn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/streams-api-suddenly-stopped-working-for-me/9953/9 "2017-05-24T13:31:08Z")

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Closed on May 24, 2017, 1:31pm UTC

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