Get Stream by User not working

[amitjoshi]

I’m trying to fetch streams by user ids, I’m using the following endpoint:

https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/< channel ID >?client_id=< client ID >

I have registered my website and obtained a valid client id. The “Get Live Streams” is working but not the one that I’m looking for! I can’t understand why is it not working? If I’m making a mistake somewhere, what is it?

[Alca]

Make sure you’re using the correct version of the API https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/v5/guides/using-the-twitch-api/ v5 is what you want to use. It defaults to v3 currently.

[amitjoshi]

Yes! I’m using the v5 version of the API.

[george]

Can you provide more information about what is not working like an error message or response?

The endpoint https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/26490481 (summit1g for example) is working correctly for me when passing client ID and v5 version via headers.

[amitjoshi]

I’m using jQuery’s $.getJSON() method for fetching the data, which looks like this -

$.getJSON(“https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/< user id >?client_id=< client id >”, function(json) {
console.log(json);
});

The output is following for any user id, whether the channel is offline or online -

{
“stream”: null,
“_links”: {
“self”: “https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/79776140”,
“channel”: “https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/79776140”
}
}

which doesn’t comply to the response format in the documentation!

[george]

@amitjoshi

$.getJSON(“https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/&lt; user id >?client_id=< client id >”, function(json) {

console.log(json);

});

You aren’t specifying the API version in your request so it is defaulting to v3 and you need v5.

jQuery example:

$.ajax({
 type: 'GET',
 url: 'https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/26490481',
 headers: {
   'Client-ID': '<removed>',
   'Accept': 'application/vnd.twitchtv.v5+json'
 },
 success: function(data) {
   console.log(data);
 }
});

[amitjoshi]

I couldn’t realise it earlier. Thank you very much for helping me, it’s working now