Notification of stream changes via webhooks

[lwansbrough]

Knowing when a user goes online is a big deal, and it doesn't look like the API has this ability yet. It would be great to have an endpoint that we could POST a webhook URL to, which would return us the current state of whatever we're requesting as well as a promise to post updates to the webhook URL for X amount of time (say... 30 days).

For example, if we could

POST https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/test_channel
{ "webhook": "http://example.com/twitch/stream/test_channel", "interval": 60 }

Twitch would then respond something like this:

{
    "data": { [stream data here] },
    "promise": {
        "webhook": "http://example.com/twitch/stream/test_channel",
        "interval": 60,
        "expires": 2592000
    }
}

T'would be nice.

[FugiTech]

Current recommended practice is to poll the API to check if streams are online. Webhooks are complex, and unlikely to be supported any time in the near future.

[lwansbrough]

Is there a batch endpoint? If not then should I be concerned about rate limiting?

[FugiTech]

You can provide multiple channels like so https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams?channel=riotgames,dota2ti,machinima,esltv_hearthstone. We don't rate limit, but if we notice excessive usage we'll contact you and ask you to stop.

[lwansbrough]

Great, thanks!

[fcarentz]

Is there a limit to number of channels you can provide via this method? What if we had 1000 channels to batch, would that be a problem?

[jwmalara]

Looks like its paged based on 'limit', chunks of 100 being the max.

[cryptiklemur]

Are webhooks still not planned? They tend to be more efficient on the server and less of a headache for users.

Services like Curse (who now OWN you guys), Slack, and Discord could all benefit from Webhook support.

[StefanJanssen95]

Webhooks would make everything a lot easier indeed.

[4c74356b41]

man, no webhooks, is this 2009?

[ivandardi]

Even Picarto has webhooks!

[l3d00m]

Is there any update as the issue is now over 3 years old and webhooks are still highly relevant?

[neolectron]

up

[3ventic]

This repository isn't used anymore. Should use the dev forums instead.

[l3d00m]

And here is a relevant thread from Februrary '15. There are still no plans to implement it.

[4c74356b41]

i stopped using twitch altogether because of this ;)

[neolectron]

Nvm its stupid, we'll keep spamming api calls just to test a truthy value. Gj twitch. Scaling at his finest.