Test if Twitch stream is live with Python and TwitchAPI

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First, the use case indicated, you will need to generate an app access token

That is documented here https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/authentication/getting-tokens-oauth#oauth-client-credentials-flow
And I have a python example here https://github.com/BarryCarlyon/twitch_misc/tree/master/authentication/app_access_tokens/python

Then store that token.

You should use this token till it expires

That token is then used with the streams endpoint

So something like this should do the trick (not tested I don’t do python). this just fixes the call, and doesn’t glue to two parts together

import requests

API_HEADERS = {
    'Client-ID' : 'myClientID',
    'Authorization' : 'Bearer '+token,
}

def checkUser(userName): #returns true if online, false if not
    url = 'https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_login='+userName

    try:
        req = reqSession.get(url, headers=API_HEADERS)
        jsondata = req.json()
        if len(jsondata['data']) == 1
            return True
        else:
            return False
    except Exception as e:
        print("Error checking user: ", e)
        return False

print(checkUser("bikestreaming"))

Edit: python code fix