onContext: feature request stream live

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Need a better way to detect when a stream is live without having to rely on Twitch API. Is it possible to add to the onContext event. a channel_id property and a type property saying if its ‘live’ ‘vodcast’ ‘’.

the reason behind a channel_id is it is impossible to currently determine wether the onContext has been triggered by a hosted feed or live feed.

the reason behind a type property for live vs vodcast is because an onContext is not triggered when a user goes offline.

i used to check if the bufferSize property is 0 or not for live status or not, but ran into those problems. if a viewer pauses and broadcaster goes offline, it wouldnt have been able to possible to capture an offline event.

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any staff response would be great, if there is webhook in the works for a channel going live and going offline, or if onContext is the place that this info will be available, or if theres is a better way for an extension to detect when a stream is live or not.

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See:

and/or

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the former won’t work for my use case, but the latter will! thanks didnt see that. can’t wait til it comes out.