Announcing the Latest Helix Endpoints and Hype Train API

[tduva]

@Dist

From a security standpoint it’s beneficial for the broadcaster to be the one in control of which 3rd parties have access to that functionality over their channel. So rather than your bot granting your app (or any app, potentially unknown to the broadcaster) permission to do those things for the broadcasters channel, it’ll be that broadcaster granting your app those permissions.

If only the broadcaster token can change channel information, then the broadcaster would have to provide a token to all their editors when they’re using clientside tools. It seems that clientside tools for e.g. mods or editors are more and more shut out of the API by making access broadcaster-only (see also Hype Train Events and Moderator Actions).