# \[Feature request\] Possibility to query actual viewers of the stream

**URL:** <https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/feature-request-possibility-to-query-actual-viewers-of-the-stream/7313>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [September 5, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/feature-request-possibility-to-query-actual-viewers-of-the-stream/7313 "2016-09-05T18:37:26Z")\
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Viewers comes from the /streams endpoint, and the actual variable name is ‘viewers’

There’s another item called ‘views’ that is part of the channel endpoint (which is embedded in the stream endpoint) which is the channels total views (not current viewers)

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