New Shoutouts API and EventSub subscription types are now in open beta

[BarryCarlyon]

@Katarina_Wyatt

I’ve been trying to implement this today as part of an existing script we have for on-stream alerts and discovered shout outs can’t be processed (400 - bad response) when the streamer is not currently streaming and I am completely baffled as to why that is.

You should check the body of the repsonse it’ll describe the error.

As @Dkamps18 noted:

• The Target Channel: online status doesn’t matter.
• The Source Channel: has to be online.

So if you want to Shoutout somechannel then you need to be live, the state of somechannel is irrelevant.

See also the Help guide - Twitch Help Portal