# Twitch Chat (Viewers) Limitations? **URL:** \ **Category:** API\ **Created:** [September 11, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-chat-viewers-limitations/7366 "2016-09-11T18:02:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Not\_My\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/54ee81/32.png) [@Not\_My\_Name](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Not_My_Name)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-chat-viewers-limitations/7366/1 "2016-09-11T18:02:16Z")
I noticed I didn’t need to use my client code to use this: [https://tmi.twitch.tv/group/user/starladder\_cs\_en/chatters](https://tmi.twitch.tv/group/user/starladder_cs_en/chatters) Will that change in the future? How often does this list update? Thanks for your time! ---
**Author:** ![BarryCarlyon](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/barrycarlyon/32/253_2.png) [@BarryCarlyon](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BarryCarlyon)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-chat-viewers-limitations/7366/2 "2016-09-11T21:21:33Z")
TMI is not an Official Twitch API end point It is not supported and can and will change at any time. Only URL’s starting [https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/](https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/) are officially supported ---
**Author:** ![Not\_My\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/54ee81/32.png) [@Not\_My\_Name](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Not_My_Name)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-chat-viewers-limitations/7366/3 "2016-09-11T21:27:00Z")
Good to know thanks! What is the official way to do this? ---
**Author:** ![BarryCarlyon](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/barrycarlyon/32/253_2.png) [@BarryCarlyon](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BarryCarlyon)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-chat-viewers-limitations/7366/4 "2016-09-11T22:01:55Z")
There is no official way at this time The method you are using is what we (devs) use at this time ---
**Author:** ![Not\_My\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/54ee81/32.png) [@Not\_My\_Name](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Not_My_Name)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-chat-viewers-limitations/7366/5 "2016-09-11T23:05:25Z")
Again, thanks for that update. 10 thumbs up! ---
**Author:** ![xangold](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/xangold/32/527_2.png) [@xangold](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/xangold)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-chat-viewers-limitations/7366/6 "2016-09-13T06:43:15Z")
That is mostly true. However, we usually will give heads up about changes. For that **specific** , highly used endpoint, we’d take care not to make breaking changes unless there was critical reason to do so, and even then we’d update here first (as soon as we knew it was going to change, and what it’d change to). We’re doing a lot of boilerplate API work here internally so that we can better supported the versioned, documented APIS that you want 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://d2opxh93rbxzdn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-chat-viewers-limitations/7366/7 "2016-10-13T06:43:26Z")
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