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The Twitch API uses a caching system that is only updated every few minutes. If you make requests within that update period, certain fields and endpoints won’t change even though you make a new request.

There is kind of a “hacky” way around this though to trick the API into giving you a brand new request instead of accessing the cache every time. All you need to do is add a query parameter with a random value every time a request is made, so something to the tune of this:


public new RestRequest Request(string endpoint, Method method)
{
    RestRequest request = new RestRequest(endpoint, method);
    request.AddHeader("Client-ID", g_client_id);
    request.AddHeader("Authorization", "OAuth " + g_oauth_token);
    request.AddQueryParameter("api_version", "5");
    request.AddQueryParameter("no_ache", DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString());            

    return request;
 }