Is there a way to get the total viewers for a category via the API ?
For example 
Twitch
Shows XX Viewers - XX Followers at the top
which would be the total count of all channels
Heres an example
https://barrycarlyon.github.io/twitch_misc/examples/browse_categories/
- Load Categories,
- For each category load a number of pages from streams with that category
- And stop after 50 pages or last stream whichever comes first
So fo you, you just need to do that last two steps since you are looking up a single category.
Just load up to 50 pages of streams with a category/game filter.
After 50 pages you are getting into the weeds and should have a statistically signifcant estimate of the number
So for slots I read currently: which only had two pages of results
Brilliant thanks for that.
Does Twitch have a dev support email at all as I have a couple of questions regarding my project and could do with some clarification on a couple of points
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Ok thanks, can you advise on the API call limit as I can’t seem to find that info
Rate limits are in the guide:
Each client ID has a point-refill rate of 800 points per minute per user and a bucket size of 800 points. The limit is across all Twitch API queries. If this limit is exceeded, an error is returned: HTTP 429 (Too Many Requests).
Infomration regarding the rate limit is returned in headers, as documented
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