Getting followers via API

API
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I am writing a greasemonkey script and I need to fetch the current follower count from the api.

Twitch.api.get("channels/target").done(function(channel){ console.log(channel); });

When the above line is entered into console, it spits out an object that contains a lot of information, but not all of the information contained in the channel object, including the follower count.

Is this behavior intended?

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you can get the current follower count by calling

Twitch.api.get(“channels/:name/follows”).done(function(channel){ console.log(channel._total); });

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You’re pulling the entire channel object, so you need to grab the followers from the output object.

Twitch.api.get("channels/:name").done(function(channel){ console.log(channel.followers); });
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@night the Channel object does not have a followers property according to my Firefox Element Inspecter

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If you’re looking for total amount of channels followed, Freddy was correct.

If you want to know how many objects are in the follows array that was returned. Then do this.

Twitch.api.get(“channels/:name/follows”).done(function(json){ console.log(json.follows.length); });

EDIT: changed “channels array” to “follows array” and “of followers” to “of channels followed,”

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Hi Freddy,

how would a websites code look like, that simply has the number of followers as an output? (I am no Developer, thus it would be nice to have a noobfriendly explanation)
I want to generate a website that displays the number of followers as text to embed that then into a costom command of the nightbot.

greetz, Frank