Can I use Twitch API for the following?

[Quezacotl]

Thank you for the reply!

@tduva

You can use the API to request followers of a channel.

Sounds good!

I’m assuming that in order to stay up-to-date with new followers, I will have to send a request on regular intervals? Will I get disconnected/ignored/blocked if I send too many requests in a short amount of time? Any idea what a safe time interval might be?

@tduva

Alternatively you can also connect to chat with your broadcaster account and listen for messages that tell you about hosts.

Sounds good!

@tduva

To use the Twitch API you need to make HTTPS requests and parse JSON.

I’ve never touched this stuff before. I have no problem doing research and finding my way, but I was wondering if I might get lucky:

1. Does anyone know of any basic (“getting started”) tutorials for making HTTPS requests using C++? Any good libraries?
2. Samething with JSON parsing, does anyone know of any good tutorials for use with C++? Are there any good pre-existing readers out there?

Again, thanks for your reply tduva. I can get started!