Host Mode in Kraken API?

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Will host mode be natively supported in Kraken (e.g. getting info about which stream is a channel hosting/what channels are hosting a stream and setting which stream a channel should hosted via an authenticated method)?

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It is something we are considering, but it is not on any roadmap, so you shouldn’t expect it any time soon.

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@thesupremecmdr

you didn’t hear it from me

try:

http://api.twitch.tv/api/users/{username_of_someone_who_is_following_whoever_you’re_interested_in}/followed/hosting

you probably need authentication for this

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@thesupremecmdr

better undocumented api:
http://chatdepot.twitch.tv/rooms/CHANNEL/host_target

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@hayksaakian chatdepot no longer works.

@Fugiman time to get it on the roadmap… way overdue even.

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API was moved to:

http://tmi.twitch.tv/hosts?include_logins=1&target={id} for users hosting your channel

http://tmi.twitch.tv/hosts?include_logins=1&host={id} for what channel you are hosting

{id} is of course the _id field from /users/ or /channels/.

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I’m not in charge of the roadmap

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I’ve been trying to retrieve a list of channels hosting my channel with the information george posted, and I keep stumbling over ‘Allow-Access-Control-Origin’ problems.
I can access that link normally in the web browser, but when I try to retrieve information from it with $.getJSON it doesn’t work.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

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It’s not meant to be used by 3rd parties, so CORS is not supported.

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So, one year later, we still have no way of retrieving host information for custom made overlays/services?

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My overlay stuff for host notifications works fine… And thats without polling chat.

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Care to explain how you achieved that without encountering Allow-Access-Control-Origin?

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By making the request using something that doesn’t care about origins, i.e. not a browser.

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