Streams API is slow updating the game

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I am working on a bot for one streamer and realized that the APIs for active Streams (" https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/" and “https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams”) are very slow to update if the game changes and also switches back for one second or so.
The channel API on KRAKEN v5 (“https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/”) updates the game immediately.
Unfortunately there is no channel API in HELIX yet.

Are there any plans to implement the channel API into HELIX or fix the slow Streams API?

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Use streams endpoint for live streams, until Helix has offline data endpoint.

It’s not slow. It’s caching.

Any game/title change will take 3/5 minutes to show in the API (both Kraken/helix have this). So it’s not slow, it’s caching. And you will sometimes hit a server in the pool thats not got the update yet.

http://shouldiblamecaching.com/

You may want to look at Webhooks instead

https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/webhooks-guide/

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So why is the channel endpoint totally acurate and returns changes immediately after I made them? Are they working differently?

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shrug

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