I run a multi-game community and a few months ago I created a Javascript widget which makes a call to the Kraken API with a bunch of usernames put into a URL from an array. It then displays whether their stream is online or offline in alphabetical order.
You can see the live version of it on the right on the home page:
The call looked like this:
https: api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams?channel=agamemnus,chiddiru,eldranis,jeheil,jetleet,kaizmo,l0n3y,maraurder,nakid_ua,netherdawn,tanlash,unrealaussies&callback=?
A week or 2 ago the Twitch monitor stopped working and only displayed offline for everyone (due to the call not working anymore).
I’ve had a play around with the API and this call tends to work well, although only for a single user
https: api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/nakid_ua
Is there a way to call multiple channels still? If not, is there still a limiter on the amount of calls made from an IP per hour? This is obviously mitigated in my case since it uses Javascript and calls itself on the client-side, although when I was initially developing this (with individual calls) it would only make 2 calls before the script stopped functioning.
I also noticed that with this new call, there is no way of knowing if the stream is live or not. The old way changed the “name” property to “live_user_nakid_ua”, although now it just says “nakid_ua” regardless. Is there a new way of detecting this?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.
