PHP right?
Don’t use shell exec (it’s a security risk and that is likely your issue as it’s security blocked)
Use cURL naively instead, for example:
$ch = curl_init('https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users?id=' . $userID);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Client-ID: YourClientID'));
$r = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$json_obj = json_decode($r);