Can I see when a stream was last online?

API
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I periodically crawl a few streams from the API (like https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/tomtomoo) to see if they are online and how many viewers are watching.

Sometimes users entirely stop streaming though, so it would be a waste of resources to keep crawling them for another few months, if they are already inactive for a longer time (say 1 or 2 months).

Now the question, is there any way to see the date of when a stream was online for the last time, or do I have to keep track of it myself?

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You can use the following to check multiple streams (if the stream isn’t returned in the streams array, it’s offline):

https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams?channel=test1,test2,test3,test4

If you want to track the last broadcast, you would need to do that on your own at this time.

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Oh, that’s good to know. Thanks!