Issues with Stream Searching

API
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This may have already been discussed, but I didn’t see anything that looked like exactly what I was looking for.

I am attempting to use the stream search api to query all active streamers playing a particular game.

I am not able to actually get the amount of streams that matches the _total that is returned. If I set limit to 100, and query until I don’t see any results returned I always top out at 120 streams. If I lower the limit to 10, I am seeing much more results but still not enough to match the original total.

Is there any advice on how best to query by game and get the actual result?

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How far off are the two numbers? I just tried with Overwatch, and I get back _total: 853. If I set the offset to 850, I get the last 3 results and nothing on offset 900. Also, which game are you searching?

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The biggest discrepancy I see is when using a limit of 100.

Using this URL I only get 20 results back and receive a total value of 403.
https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/search/streams?limit=100&offset=0&q=h1z1

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Actually no matter what I send as far as limit I get back 20 results for each query… Maybe that is the overall issue… am I misusing the limit querystring?

I have confirmed that removing the limit querystring allows me to get what I want… seems inefficient to only retrieve 20 at a time, but it works.

Can you confirm that this is the process I should follow?

  • Request the first batch using the ?q= notation
  • process the batch
  • Request the next batch using the “next” link provided in the initial response
  • Process the batch
  • If the count returned is 0, stop processing, otherwise request the next batch
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You’re totally right. That endpoint isn’t respecting the limit. I’ve reported this to that team and will keep you posted when it is fixed. :slight_smile:

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Awesome… Thanks Dallas. I appreciate it.

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