How to get the "real" stream time for the most recently switched-to game for a stream?

[BarryCarlyon]

@ATwitchAPIDeveloper

Seriously? I can’t even begin to tell you how impractical and stupid this is. You can’t be serious.

Why would I want to go through the hell of dealing with hosting companies, domain registrars, DNS hosts and all their BS, paying them a bunch of money all the time, just to use the Twitch API?

Then you would lack a server of sufficient size, processing power, or web accessibility to do much, but that does depend on your use case, I’ve had no issue with any of these things you have mentioned for 15 years at least

@ATwitchAPIDeveloper

Twitch is a bunch of kids screaming in chat rooms – not some sort of ultra-curated goldmine of personal information. Either way, nothing I’ve asked for would in any way be “worse for privacy” compared to the existing API.

If that’s what you think, why bother. Thank you for insulting everyone.

@ATwitchAPIDeveloper

I don’t have a whole infrastructure set up to poll your API 24/7 for every single user on the site. Even if that would be possible (it would obviously quickly hit the rate limits)

From the documentation:

If you need a higher rate limit, please fill out the form at Limit Increase | Twitch Developers

And the rate limit should suffice for long polling all active streams for this data, I can think of a few ways to optimize the calls to reduce API requests anyway, it’s all in the documentation.

If you are not working with single streamers and want to obtain game changes it’s in real time at

Reference

or if you prefer kraken

Reference

That’s how other people do it, just long poll all streams and collect the data.

@ATwitchAPIDeveloper

I already explained why this doesn’t make any sense, but considering the replies I’ve got so far while asking API questions, I feel as if you aren’t exactly eager to implement or fix anything. You seem to have very little interest in correcting even the most jarring bugs with the API

I don’t not work for Twitch. I cannot make changes to the API.

I am a third party developer who uses the Twitch API, and advise on the forums how I do things when people raise questions.

I long poll to obtain accurate game change data for a stream. Or since WebHooks have been introduced, I now use webhooks for more accurate data collection.

Comparing API’s across various different system over the years, having Webhooks is a great addition to the Suite of tools available.

@ATwitchAPIDeveloper

Logically, if you didn’t care about feedback, you wouldn’t even have a forum like this. But since you do, why not actually listen to what people report?

Again, I’m not a Twitch Employee, I don’t not work on or for Twitch on the API

@ATwitchAPIDeveloper

At least when it comes to simple things like the ones I’ve mentioned?

It may seem simple to you, but that doesn’t mean it is.

@ATwitchAPIDeveloper

And finally, sorry if you have something personally against me because I “sound rude” or something – I’m just very to-the-point, and when I feel like I’m not being told the truth, I get very frustrated.

As a moderator for the forums, yes, I have concerns when you use such a name.

I am telling the truth, if I want to obtain this data, I do exactly what, for example, sullygnome or other statistics people do, I poll all streamers that are live and test the returned data objects for game differences and record the time.

Could this be done a better way with a historical API data end point?

Sure,

does one exist,

no,

is it on the roadmap

no.