Wrong Username from API

Hi everyone,
I’m calling the API to retrieve list of streamers from a specific game and listing it, its all okay to usernames that use the occidental alphabet, for oriental one its a bit different.

In this case a Korean username “리니지2주님” can not be accessed by
Twitch or url encoded
Twitch

If I search it on twitch the username is not that returned by the API but “lovekg”

Sample of API Call:

GET https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?first=100&game_id=8901

May I’m doing something wrong, or the API is :slight_smile:
Thanks!

This is a often reported issue! Did you search the forums first?

See also: https://github.com/twitchdev/issues/issues/3

You can obtain the correct “login” by parsing the “thumbnail_url” or making an additional call to the users API with the user id from the streams endpoint

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