Embed URL playing wrong channel

API
1

I noticed today that player.twitch.tv is getting re-directed to the wrong channel. For example, if I want to play emongg’s channel, the docs (https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/embed/video-and-clips/) specify the URL would be
http://player.twitch.tv/?channel=emongg. However I am seeing a video from the channel saltybet instead.

Curl’ing the embed URL is return a 301 redirect response to that channel.

curl -v http://player.twitch.tv/?channel=emongg
* About to connect() to player.twitch.tv port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 23.75.192.30...
* Connected to player.twitch.tv (23.75.192.30) port 80 (#0)
> GET /?channel=emongg HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
> Host: player.twitch.tv
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Server: CloudFront
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 183
< Location: https://player.twitch.tv/?channel=saltybet
< X-Amz-Cf-Id: s5zyHKRRnIgHAzp-cOFEnPRQAzB-g9ZKL6QvXJw0DVSA8mukJHaWaA==
< Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 22:04:21 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive

Is there something wrong on Twitch’s end? These embed URLs have been working for years and just today started to play this channel.

2

I’m running into a similar issue. No matter which Twitch video I try to embed, the Twitch Player only wants to load the channel - ShadbaseMurderTV.

3

Hey,

apparently this is a known bug that is awaiting a fix.
For now using https instead of http, should work as a temp fix iirc.
(no guarantee tho)

Regards

Syzuna

4

Any Staff update on this issue that occurred? Was it a bug? What will be done to prevent this issue from reoccurring on the live platform.