Commercial API gone?

smokey019 · May 23, 2020, 9:34pm

I’m trying to run advertisements, and I’m getting a v3 error for v5 API?

Array
(
    [error] => Gone
    [status] => 410
    [message] => It's time to kick ass and serve v3... and I'm all outta v3. See https://dev.twitch.tv/docs
)

API I’m trying to access:
'https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/' . $_REQUEST['id'] . '/commercial'

If I change the header to accept V5 api it just gives me an internal error. Any ideas?

BarryCarlyon · May 23, 2020, 9:37pm

You need the v5 header.

And you might get a 500 error, instead of a 4x error, on channels that can’t run commercials or is offline.

As a channel needs to be affilaite+ to run ads, and needs to be live

That API was working as expected when I last ran ads a few hours ago.

smokey019 · May 23, 2020, 9:39pm

I wonder if there’s any chance Twitch can actually give us some real error messages? So I’m not so confused when problems like this arise…

I can’t test while offline, it’s hard to just “test” ads while online. Would be nice if Twitch gave us some more options for testing things.

BarryCarlyon · May 23, 2020, 10:32pm

github.com/twitchdev/issues

Erroneous Start Channel Commercial response

opened 12:05AM - 07 Dec 19 UTC

closed 05:12PM - 13 Apr 23 UTC

thedist

no action product: v5 ticketed

**Brief description** The Star Channel Commercial returns incorrect error respo…nses, as well as sending a 'success' response in a situation it should fail. **How to reproduce** Use the https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/v5/reference/channels#start-channel-commercial endpoint. If the channel is offline a 500 error is returned. If the channel is live and hasn't run an ad recently, a 'success' message is returned `{ Message: 'Starting commercial break. Keep in mind you are still live and not all viewers will receive a commercial.', Length: 30, RetryAfter: 480 }` which is correct for Affiliates/Partners, but a normal user should not be receiving this as no ads can actually be run. If the channel is live and has run an ad recently (within the 'retry after' window) a 500 error is returned. **Expected behavior** The documentation specifically states that running an ad too quickly, as well as attempting to run for a non partner/affiliate, there should be a 422 Unprocessable Entity, There's no documented behaviour for an offline stream, but it should respond with either a 422, or follow the behaviour of other endpoints which require a stream to be live such as the Create Channel Marker endpoint and return a 404. None of these errors should be 500's. **Additional context or questions** No equivalent Helix endpoint exists for this, so while this is a deprecated endpoint it is something we need to rely on so correct responses is important.

The issue is open as a issue on the bug tracker wrt the 500’s

system · June 22, 2020, 10:32pm

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