Using API to retrieve channel status

API
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Hey people,

I’m using react and trying to display different behaviour in order if user’s channel is online or not.

So i get the response but the following code below doesn’t work as it’s always return first statement rather than else even if channel is offline ( in this case that is when array length 0 which is case when user is not online - there is no object )

This is my code

Check out line 35 and 38 - at 35 in the console.log it shows that in the state that length is equal to zero but somehow it always displays this insted of one below in else statement.

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Hey guys, anyone? Can’t see like for 15 hours where i’m wrong :confused:

3

Well you asked a React/Javascript programming issue. Not really a Twitch API issue.

Your Axios code seems wrong.

const axios = require('axios');

axios.defaults.headers.common["Client-ID"] = 'CLIENT';
    axios
      .get("https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_login=blaschikovsky")
      .then(response => {
        console.log(response.data);

        console.log(response.data.length);

        if (response.data.length !== 0) {
            console.log('Is not zero');
        } else {
            console.log('Is Zero');
        }

      })
      .catch(error => {
        console.log(error);
      });

results in:

{ data: [], pagination: {} }
undefined
Is not zero

The use of !== performs a test and a type cast test. So you’ve tried to see if an OBJECT has length. And of course an object doesn’t

Line 12:

this.setState({data: response.data})

Should be:

this.setState({data: response.data.data})

Response.data fetches the response from twitch, but you probably want the data array in the respone that’ll contain 0/1 streams in an array which is what you can test the length of as it’s an Array.

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Thank you man, saved my day.

I knew it wasn’t but i was not properly sure if i’m calling it and by that i mean with response.data as when i looked into console to debug it looked right.

Thank you again!

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