Making Request to new twitch API in java

[BarryCarlyon]

@TheLaggingPanda

So currently, I am trying to make an http request from java in order to get the JSON, but I have also read you that you need an authentication in the request, which I have no idea how I would do that. I set up my twitch application and have access to the client ID and secret ID, I just don’t know what to do with them. If anyone can give me an example or point me to sources to help learn more about this, I would be greatly appreciative!

For the API method you are calling, to put it simply, No authentication is required. Aside from a header containing a Client ID.

You are calling

Reference

Which is a GET request not a POST like in your snippet.
This should do what you need:

    url = new URL(("https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams?channel="  + channelName));
    connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
    connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
    connection.setRequestProperty("Client-ID",
            YOURCLIENTIDHERE);