# Channel Info in new Twitch API

**URL:** <https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-info-in-new-twitch-api/15486>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [April 25, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-info-in-new-twitch-api/15486 "2018-04-25T18:32:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![webpanel0815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@webpanel0815](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/webpanel0815)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-info-in-new-twitch-api/15486/1 "2018-04-25T18:32:13Z")

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The old v5 API gives me a lot of information about a channel in 1 request: [https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/v5/reference/channels/#get-channel](https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/v5/reference/channels/#get-channel)

I basically want to this information or even better all this information: [https://wind-bow.glitch.me/twitch-api/channels/lirik](https://wind-bow.glitch.me/twitch-api/channels/lirik) with the new API and as less requests as possible.  
I can’t find the get-channel endpoint in the new API. Can you help me?

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**Author:** ![BarryCarlyon](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/barrycarlyon/32/253_2.png) [@BarryCarlyon](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BarryCarlyon)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-info-in-new-twitch-api/15486/2 "2018-04-25T18:39:32Z")

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In the new API all “channels” are “users”

For user information

> **[Reference](https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference/#get-users)**
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> Twitch Developer tools and services to integrate Twitch into your development or create interactive experience on twitch.tv.

For stream information

> **[Reference](https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference/#get-streams)**
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> Twitch Developer tools and services to integrate Twitch into your development or create interactive experience on twitch.tv.

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**Author:** ![webpanel0815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@webpanel0815](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/webpanel0815)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-info-in-new-twitch-api/15486/3 "2018-04-25T18:54:58Z")

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Thanks! But I need more than one call to retrieve all the information or can i somehow combine them? Why did the strip the API like that?

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**Author:** ![BarryCarlyon](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/barrycarlyon/32/253_2.png) [@BarryCarlyon](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BarryCarlyon)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-info-in-new-twitch-api/15486/4 "2018-04-26T14:27:00Z")

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> [@webpanel0815](#):
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> But I need more than one call to retrieve

Correct

> [@webpanel0815](#):
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> Why did the strip the API like that?

I imagine computationally, the amount of CPU time for two API requests, the same as the “old” one API request.

Additionally, since a “users data” changes less often, it makes more sense to fetch the user data once per 24 hours and the streams more often, as a stream will change more often, than a users data will.

So overall, this reduces the overall bandwidth and data transmitted.

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2spem0quai2ol.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/channel-info-in-new-twitch-api/15486/5 "2018-05-26T14:27:12Z")

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Closed on May 26, 2018, 2:27pm UTC

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