Is there anyway to get your IP whitelisted on the API

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I have been working on a project that checks twitch usernames are taken or not, it seems the fastest you can do is 750ms per request before you get errors and then eventually ip banned, So i know twitch whitelists some bots for whispers, is there anyway whoever is in charge of twitches API can do the same?

Thanks, Chas

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I am using https://passport.twitch.tv/usernames/kappa will this work for this?

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No, that is not a part of the API.

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Easiest solution: Just don’t send requests so quickly that you reach the limit.

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The correct (official) method is:

Exists: https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/users/barrycarlyon

{
    "display_name": "BarryCarlyon",
    "_id": 15185913,
    "name": "barrycarlyon",
    "type": "user",
    "bio": "NNNNNEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDD",
    "created_at": "2010-09-01T17:51:01Z",
    "updated_at": "2016-06-13T05:30:07Z",
    "logo": "https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/barrycarlyon-profile_image-57VGstR8g2yjIFm-300x300.jpg",
    "_links": {
        "self": "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/users/barrycarlyon"
    }
}

NoExist (at time of writing): https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/users/bobysdfjdhsfjkhdf

{
    "error": "Not Found",
    "status": 404,
    "message": "User 'bobysdfjdhsfjkhdf' does not exist"
}
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You cannot tell whether an account is deactivated or available for registration using that method, however.

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That I didn’t know :smile:

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So TLDR is if i want to check the availability of an account there is no way to lower the ratelimit with the passport Api?

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Or should i just be using this https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/users/jbfbvrbrrv

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What is it you’re trying to do on the larger scale?

The only reason I can see for automatically checking if an account is available for registration is for mass registering accounts, which is something you definitely should not be doing.

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Here you can see an example nuuls.xyz/names of what i am doing no its not for spam bots

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Apart from the link not working, that feature really isn’t useful, as it’s built into the Twitch registration process.

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Passport is not an officially supported API. Supported APIs start with api.twitch.tv/kraken. I would also recommend, when using Kraken, to be mindful of rate limits.

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