I’m in the process of creating a relatively simple extension. The current state of the project is that I have an application that broadcasters run on their systems to read some data in memory from the game they’re playing. I would like to simply push this data to the front-end script and render it t…

I have built and released exactly what you describe. Users download a bit of software. That software pushes data from the game to my EBS My EBS collects the data and queues it As per the Twitch PubSub sending rate limit it processes the queue (1 per second) In order to send to pubsub I encode a JW…

How did you go about acquiring/verifying the broadcaster’s identity from the EBS? Thanks a lot for the quick and thorough response, it’s exactly what I needed.

Doesn’t this only secure the connection between the EBS and Twitch? How do you know from your EBS that the data being pushed to it from the local software is from the actual broadcaster? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I still have a lot to read and digest.

My config panel shown to the broadcaster outputs some sort of secure Key, that the caster than copy/pastes into my desktop app, all payloads sent from the desktop app includes the key, which I can also use to determine where I send the payloads. How you determine what you key would be it’s up to yo…

Ah! That’s exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much for your help.

Do you have an example posted somewhere? Would save me a bunch of time to see how its done.

The program you described in your initial reply to this thread.

[image] BarryCarlyon: Users download a bit of software. You mean ^^ that? It’s proprietary to the extension.

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BarryCarlyon September 12, 2017, 5:17pm 4

I answered that here: Is there a way to get streamer ID via the JavaScript Helper?

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