Get streams repeatedly returning cursor "IA"

tyrust · December 6, 2019, 7:35pm

See title. I think this started yesterday when my script stopped working. I didn’t dig into it until today though. I’m seeing the following behavior:

   % curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TWITCH_TOKEN" \
-X GET 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_id=30661033'
{"data":[{"id":"36361123280","user_id":"30661033","user_name":"saintvicious","game_id":"513143","type":"live","title":"Me Zed !comps","viewer_count":1921,"started_at":"2019-12-06T10:40:08Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_saintvicious-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039"]}],"pagination":{"cursor":"IA"}}%

Using the cursor just returns the same data and cursor:

   % curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TWITCH_TOKEN" \
-X GET 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?after=IA&user_id=30661033'
{"data":[{"id":"36361123280","user_id":"30661033","user_name":"saintvicious","game_id":"513143","type":"live","title":"Me Zed !comps","viewer_count":1921,"started_at":"2019-12-06T10:40:08Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_saintvicious-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039"]}],"pagination":{"cursor":"IA"}}%

The behavior is mostly consistent. I occasionally get what looks like a reasonable cursor (although for this particular request there shouldn’t be a cursor at all):

   % curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TWITCH_TOKEN" \
-X GET 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_id=30661033'
{"data":[{"id":"36361123280","user_id":"30661033","user_name":"saintvicious","game_id":"513143","type":"live","title":"Me Zed !comps","viewer_count":1913,"started_at":"2019-12-06T10:40:08Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_saintvicious-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039"]}],"pagination":{"cursor":"eyJiIjpudWxsLCJhIjp7Ik9mZnNldCI6MX19"}}%

And again, using the cursor just returns the same data and the “IA” cursor again:

   % curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TWITCH_TOKEN" \
-X GET 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?after=eyJiIjpudWxsLCJhIjp7Ik9mZnNldCI6MX19&user_id=30661033'
{"data":[{"id":"36361123280","user_id":"30661033","user_name":"saintvicious","game_id":"513143","type":"live","title":"Me Zed !comps","viewer_count":1921,"started_at":"2019-12-06T10:40:08Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_saintvicious-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039"]}],"pagination":{"cursor":"IA"}}%

Let me know if there is any additional data that I can provide. I haven’t checked if this is happening with any other endpoints.

BarryCarlyon · December 6, 2019, 7:36pm

For the first two you can just ignore the cursor since you requested a single stream.

When you specify a single user_id you’ll never have a second page.

So just ignore it.

It’s not the first time this one has cropped up.

It’s been passed on for investigation again

tyrust · December 6, 2019, 7:44pm

Thanks for the quick reply and for passing this on to investigation.

The single user_id was just an example. I’m actually calling /streams for every stream a given user follows.

Will results ever be paginated if the number of user_ids is less than first? I was operating under the assumption that the response might contain less than first objects since the documentation says “maximum”.

BarryCarlyon · December 6, 2019, 7:47pm

I’m not sure I’ve not tested it myself.

I’d expect that the number of user_id’s you specify override’s first

So if you specify 100 user_id’s you’ll get the streams of those 100 that are live if calling streams

tyrust · December 6, 2019, 7:57pm

I just tested it and the API does respect first. As a test I specified three user_ids and it paginated successfully. However, it took many attempts as sometimes it returned the bad cursor “IA”:

   % curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TWITCH_TOKEN" \
-X GET 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?first=1&user_id=30661033&user_id=24124090&user_id=28640725'
{"data":[{"id":"36361123280","user_id":"30661033","user_name":"saintvicious","game_id":"513143","type":"live","title":"Me Zed !comps","viewer_count":2128,"started_at":"2019-12-06T10:40:08Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_saintvicious-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039"]},{"id":"36362407344","user_id":"24124090","user_name":"DatModz","game_id":"512929","type":"live","title":"Finishing Darksiders Genesis - Unbiased Review | Light ARPG","viewer_count":1110,"started_at":"2019-12-06T18:00:26Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_datmodz-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039","67259b26-ff83-444e-9d3c-faab390df16f","d0976a7e-26a7-4a48-9225-c522808540f2"]},{"id":"36362159712","user_id":"28640725","user_name":"LobosJr","game_id":"24241","type":"live","title":"~Final Fantasy Friday!~ | FFXIV First Character Continues!","viewer_count":835,"started_at":"2019-12-06T16:48:23Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_lobosjr-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039"]}],"pagination":{"cursor":"IA"}}%                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

   % curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TWITCH_TOKEN" \
-X GET 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?first=1&user_id=30661033&user_id=24124090&user_id=28640725'
{"data":[{"id":"36361123280","user_id":"30661033","user_name":"saintvicious","game_id":"513143","type":"live","title":"Me Zed !comps","viewer_count":2124,"started_at":"2019-12-06T10:40:08Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_saintvicious-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039"]}],"pagination":{"cursor":"eyJiIjpudWxsLCJhIjp7Ik9mZnNldCI6MX19"}}%                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

   % curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TWITCH_TOKEN" \
-X GET 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?first=1&user_id=30661033&user_id=24124090&user_id=28640725'
{"data":[{"id":"36361123280","user_id":"30661033","user_name":"saintvicious","game_id":"513143","type":"live","title":"Me Zed !comps","viewer_count":2128,"started_at":"2019-12-06T10:40:08Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_saintvicious-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039"]},{"id":"36362407344","user_id":"24124090","user_name":"DatModz","game_id":"512929","type":"live","title":"Finishing Darksiders Genesis - Unbiased Review | Light ARPG","viewer_count":1110,"started_at":"2019-12-06T18:00:26Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_datmodz-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039","67259b26-ff83-444e-9d3c-faab390df16f","d0976a7e-26a7-4a48-9225-c522808540f2"]},{"id":"36362159712","user_id":"28640725","user_name":"LobosJr","game_id":"24241","type":"live","title":"~Final Fantasy Friday!~ | FFXIV First Character Continues!","viewer_count":835,"started_at":"2019-12-06T16:48:23Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_lobosjr-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039"]}],"pagination":{"cursor":"IA"}}%                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

[... a few more "IA"s ...]

   % curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TWITCH_TOKEN" \
-X GET 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?first=1&user_id=30661033&user_id=24124090&user_id=28640725&after=eyJiIjpudWxsLCJhIjp7Ik9mZnNldCI6MX19'
{"data":[{"id":"36362407344","user_id":"24124090","user_name":"DatModz","game_id":"512929","type":"live","title":"Finishing Darksiders Genesis - Unbiased Review | Light ARPG","viewer_count":1117,"started_at":"2019-12-06T18:00:26Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_datmodz-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039","67259b26-ff83-444e-9d3c-faab390df16f","d0976a7e-26a7-4a48-9225-c522808540f2"]}],"pagination":{"cursor":"eyJiIjp7Ik9mZnNldCI6MH0sImEiOnsiT2Zmc2V0IjoyfX0"}}%                                                                                                                                                                                  

   % curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TWITCH_TOKEN" \
-X GET 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?first=1&user_id=30661033&user_id=24124090&user_id=28640725&after=eyJiIjp7Ik9mZnNldCI6MH0sImEiOnsiT2Zmc2V0IjoyfX0'
{"data":[{"id":"36361123280","user_id":"30661033","user_name":"saintvicious","game_id":"513143","type":"live","title":"Me Zed !comps","viewer_count":2128,"started_at":"2019-12-06T10:40:08Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_saintvicious-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039"]},{"id":"36362407344","user_id":"24124090","user_name":"DatModz","game_id":"512929","type":"live","title":"Finishing Darksiders Genesis - Unbiased Review | Light ARPG","viewer_count":1110,"started_at":"2019-12-06T18:00:26Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_datmodz-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039","67259b26-ff83-444e-9d3c-faab390df16f","d0976a7e-26a7-4a48-9225-c522808540f2"]},{"id":"36362159712","user_id":"28640725","user_name":"LobosJr","game_id":"24241","type":"live","title":"~Final Fantasy Friday!~ | FFXIV First Character Continues!","viewer_count":835,"started_at":"2019-12-06T16:48:23Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_lobosjr-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039"]}],"pagination":{"cursor":"IA"}}%                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

[... a couple more "IA"s ...]

   % curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TWITCH_TOKEN" \
-X GET 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?first=1&user_id=30661033&user_id=24124090&user_id=28640725&after=eyJiIjp7Ik9mZnNldCI6MH0sImEiOnsiT2Zmc2V0IjoyfX0'
{"data":[{"id":"36362159712","user_id":"28640725","user_name":"LobosJr","game_id":"24241","type":"live","title":"~Final Fantasy Friday!~ | FFXIV First Character Continues!","viewer_count":830,"started_at":"2019-12-06T16:48:23Z","language":"en","thumbnail_url":"https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/previews-ttv/live_user_lobosjr-{width}x{height}.jpg","tag_ids":["6ea6bca4-4712-4ab9-a906-e3336a9d8039"]}],"pagination":{"cursor":"eyJiIjp7Ik9mZnNldCI6MX0sImEiOnsiT2Zmc2V0IjozfX0"}}%

system · January 5, 2020, 7:57pm

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