What are the numbers in this URL?

Is it a Twitch user id? What is it? Can I obtain this number through the API?

https://twitchemotes.com/channels/26490481 (26490481)

Those numbers are in fact a user_id. It’s an ID that is used to distinguish users on the back end now that names can be changed. You can get the login name or user_id from the /users Helix endpoint.

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