Forgive me if I missed some information but if I wanted to show a list with Avatars/Profile pictures of 10 live streamers. I would have to provide 10 ID’s and then make 2 requests. One to the '/streams/' endpoint and then and 1 to the '/users/' endpoint to get the avatar/profile picture of each user.
User Avatars are public information and I do not see why it can’t be returned via the '/streams/' endpoint. I understand that you may not want to bloat the streams endpoint. But the '/streams/' endpoint can be accessed with 'no scope' and an 'App Access Token'. The '/users/' endpoint is lockdown to a 'User Token' and does not offer ability with 'App Access Token'. Which I understand is probably to protect user data like the 'email' address which is again fair enough. But in order to get the email address you have to pass a scope 'user:read:email' outside of that single piece of information there is no private data which needs the optional scope or real need for a 'user token'.
Ideally, you should be able to hit the '/users/' endpoint with just an 'App Access Token' and obviously the email is not returned or '/streams/' should include the avatar like the previous version of the API.
I looked to see if you use standardized avatar URL’s but also that is not the case. For some reason, Twitch add random numbers to the file names?
A standard URL contract would be great, Then I could just construct a URL: /blah/blah/blah/${username}/avatar.jpg suggested here:
Is it not possible to show a users avatar without making a user login to Twitch? This would be a shame as it means I would not be able to migrate my app. There are many use-cases for this kind of logic and it is used on every page of Twitch without being logged in, see image below for an example.
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Is there really no way to do this without forcing users to authenticate with my website? Hopefully, there is?
Thank you for taking the time to read my questions.