Test if Twitch stream is live with Python and TwitchAPI

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Line 17 of my example, will print out the “keys”, one of the items in the object will be expires_in that tells you how long the key is good for. Generally speaking App Access Tokens last around 60 days.

You can also use the Validation endpoint, Authentication | Twitch Developers to check a tokens validity and current time left

I modifed my github example

import requests

client_id = ''
client_secret = ''
streamer_name = 'bikestreaming'

body = {
    'client_id': client_id,
    'client_secret': client_secret,
    "grant_type": 'client_credentials'
}
r = requests.post('https://id.twitch.tv/oauth2/token', body)

#data output
keys = r.json();

print(keys)

headers = {
    'Client-ID': client_id,
    'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + keys['access_token']
}

print(headers)

stream = requests.get('https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_login=' + streamer_name, headers=headers)

stream_data = stream.json();

print(stream_data);

if len(stream_data['data']) == 1:
    print('live')
else:
    print('not live');

And this works (well aside from the target streamer now being offline)

My len() line is wrong in what I modified earlier

This code example is not a production ready example, you shouldn’t generate a new token every time

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