Helix Get User Missing Total Followers

[BarryCarlyon]

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Helix - Follower Count

Hey, 3-4 months ago, it was announced, that the follower count will find it’s way back into Helix. Isn’t there anything new, or am i missing anything?

No Follower/Following Count on Helix

Was unable to find anything on the docs??? Want to just future proof the applications I’m writing but it seems ridiculous how this isn’t even a thing yet while it’s predecesor is marked for removal Can only find it on Kraken, which is what is being used on production to get viewers

New API Helix Followers

I come here to complain a little bit. I’ve been using Helix lately and I like it so far. Getting live channel info, getting games, all of those are ok but this Follower endpoint sucks. It only accepts IDs and returns only IDs. Honestly in my project I don’t need to know all viewers/chatters ID, it’s not necessary until it comes to this follower crap. If I was only working with 1 channel at a time then it wouldn’t be as bad but I’m working with an unlimited number of channels and I REALLY don’t …

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https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/search?q=followers%20helix

And the final:

Regarding Data in Kraken Not Present in New Twitch API

HeyGuys There have been a lot of questions around why data from Kraken is missing in the new Twitch API. We want to let you know why that is. Kraken, the previous version of the API, serves both first and third parties. There is a lot of data exposed in Kraken that we need to power Twitch, but not all of that data make sense for a third party API. Or maybe the data does make sense for it, but for performance reasons we haven’t been able to add this information in a way that keeps the new Twitc…