Total users follows endpoint

API
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Is there work being done to the users follows endpoint? My application encountered an error getting the follows for a user using this url https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users/follows?first=100&from_id=. I looked at the response using my user id and the total response field being returned was different than the total number of followers I have on twitch as shown on my twitch page

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How big was the difference between the API total and the Twitch Page? Usually it is very common for the API total field to show a lower value than your Twitch page because the Twitch page contains all users who follow, even users who are suspended from Twitch, where as the API doesn’t return results for a suspended user so the total will be the sum of the users it can return.

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The response total was two higher than the twitch page. Its only a concern for me because I’m waiting for all the follows to be returned and I’m using total to determine completion before using the list. I noticed that the problem eventually “fixed” itself. I’m guessing this only occurs during the time it takes twitch to update information when channels are suspended?

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If you are monitoring a channel that was suspended, and no longer is. Then thats the issue. There is a some general weirdness :tm: when a channel goes from suspended to not suspended.

For follows/subs on helix, it’s easier to just get all pages until you can get no more pages instead of using the total as a point to stop at (and yes subs has no total anyway), thats if you need every user rather than just the total

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Are you supposed to use the pagination value for that purpose or do you do a diff on the current and previous response data? I seem to always get the same pagination value after each request even after adding the pagination value in the query string so I resorted to using the total as a stop point.

var url = 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users/follows?first=100&from_id=' + userID;
if (cursor) {
	//console.log("add cursor")
	url += '&after='+cursor
} else {
	//console.log("no cursor")
}
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I keep paginating till data is an empty array.

Or the page has count(data) < first

(I Prefer the empty array)

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