I Don't Know how to use the new Helix Twitch api

https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_login=Channel_name?client_id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Can i please know if this is the right Syntax , i already check the guide but am not getting anything
except this : {“error”:“Unauthorized”,“status”:401,“message”:“Must provide a valid Client-ID or OAuth token”}

To be specific i would like to know the Syntax to get a Streamer infos like
followers count
viwers count
name
live
etc…
Please & thank you

You can’t send the client id as a querystring param, you have to send it as the Client-ID header, as shown in the example https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference#get-streams Also you can’t use multiple ? in a querystring, you use the question mark symbol once to indicate the start of the querystring, and then an ampersand & to separate separate parameters.

To see the follower count you would use the Get User Follows endpoint https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference#get-users-follows with the to_id param that is the id of the user you wish to see who follows them.

Hello Sir , sorry for disturbing you again but i’m not really quiet good at web programming i know only php html css and i don’t really know wich programming language am gonna have to use for this twitch api to get a channel data (followers count ,viewers count , profile picture etc …) i wanna store this data in mysql database so please if you show a project example on how to use the twitch api on a website and how to take the data in JSON format and use it in PHP . i’m really tripping looking for tutorials i couldn’t find any . Thank you in advance !

Basic PHP cURL to fetch a URL and process the response

<?php

$ch = curl_init('https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_login=Channel_name');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'Client-ID: MyClientId'
));

$data = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);

if ($info['http_code'] == 200) {
    $data = json_decode($data);
    var_dump($data);
} else {
    echo 'Failed with ' . $info['http_code'];
}

See also

Google Search: php fetch from api
Second Result: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33302442/get-info-from-external-api-url-using-php/33303776

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Thank you So Much Sir for helping me out , this code of curl with php made things so easy for me i finally can’t understand how to use the api on php . but there is one last think i don’t understand wich is why i am not getting any infos in the data . i checked twice my client id , and i changed user_login with many streamers ids like ninja to test but sadly the array is empty . Thanks again :slight_smile:

The example code I presented and the URL you used in OP, checks for a Live Stream, if the user is not live, no data is returned.

Do you perhaps mean the users API instead

https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users?login=somename
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Sir You can’t imagine how glad i am after the api finally worked for me , omg i can’t even believe it ^^
i was struggling with it for hours maybe 15 hours non stop until now .
Thank you again for your wonderful support <3

Hi,

Here is a front-end example… Maybe it is help to you or anyone else…

"use strict";
// type = the response format JSON or text
const callAJAX = (props) => {
    const url = props.url,
          method = props.method || "GET",
          type = props.type || "JSON",
          header = props.header
    ;
    
    return new Promise(waitForResult => {
        const xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
            if (this.readyState === 4 && this.status === 200) {
                type === "text" 
                    ? waitForResult(this.response)
                    : waitForResult(JSON.parse(this.response))
                ;
            }
        };
        if (method === "GET") {
            xhttp.open("GET", url, true);
            for (const key in props.header) {
                xhttp.setRequestHeader(key, header[key]);
            }
            xhttp.send();
        }
    });
};

const AJAXProps = {
    url: "https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?first=20",
    header: {"client-ID": "--- your client id goes here ---"}
};

// Get Streams: -----------------------------------------------------------
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("streams", response);
});

// Get Streams Metadata: -----------------------------------------------------------
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams/metadata`;
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("metaData", response);
});

// Get All Stream Tags: -----------------------------------------------------------
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/helix/tags/streams?first=20`;
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("streamsTags", response);
});

// Get specified stream Tags: -----------------------------------------------------------
let broadcasterID = "110690086"; // is it the user ID ???
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams/tags?broadcaster_id=${broadcasterID}`;
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("specified stream Tags", response);
});

// Get Users: -----------------------------------------------------------
const userID = 110690086; // multiple id's query separate with ampersans (&id=...&id=...)
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users?id=${userID}`;
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("get User by ID", response);
});
const loginName = ["ESL_SC2", "OgamingSC2", "cretetion", "freecodecamp", "storbeck", "habathcx", "RobotCaleb", "noobs2ninjas", "myth"];
let names = "";
while (loginName.length) {
    let name = loginName.pop();
    !(names) 
        ? names += name
        : names += `&login=${name}`
    ;
};
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users?login=${names}`;
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("get User by login name:", response);
});

// check if users now streaming:
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?first=20&user_login=${names}`.replace(/login/g, "user_login");
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("check if the given users now streaming", response);
}); 


// Get Users Follows: -----------------------------------------------------------
const fromID = 30104304; // this is the dataset of followed users???
const toID = 110690086; // this is the dataset of followers???
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users/follows?from_id=${fromID}`;
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("Get User Follows from:", response);
});
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users/follows?to_id=${toID}`;
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("Get User Follows to:", response);
});

// Get Clips: -----------------------------------------------------------
const clipID = 110690086; //  one or more; Which data need here? Where can I find  the clip's ID???
broadcasterID = 110690086; // one only; ... and here??? 
let gameID = 33214; // one only
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/helix/clips?id=AwkwardHelplessSalamanderSwiftRage`; // static ID from sample code
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("Get Clips", response);
});
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/helix/clips?game_id=${gameID}`;

callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("Get Clips by game ID", response);
});

// Get Game: -----------------------------------------------------------
gameID = 490422;
let gameName = "Fortnite";
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/helix/games?id=${gameID}`;
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("Get Game by ID:", response);
});
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/helix/games?id=${gameID}`;
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("Get Game by Name:", response);
});

// kraken channels -----------------------------------------------------------------------
AJAXProps.header["Accept"] = "application/vnd.twitchtv.v5+json";
console.log(AJAXProps.header);
AJAXProps.url = `https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/30220059`;
callAJAX(AJAXProps).then(response => {
    console.log("kraken channels", response);
});

Hey there! I tried using your code but the only response I’m getting is “Failed with 401”. Do you have any idea why this might be? I’m using your exact code (I changed the channel name and client ID of course)

This posts code is no longer valid.

Due to changes made to helix on April 30th 2020, you now need an oAuth token for every request.

usually an App Access Token Suffices

See also

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