Twitch Drops API Inquiry

[BarryCarlyon]

@tealspierre

Our game which runs on steam will be having a steam beta test next month and we plan to do a drops campaing during the steam beta test period. We will be giving out several rewards as drops, one of them being the beta key. Is it possible for the user who gets a beta key via drops to automatically get granted access to the game on Steam, or does the user have to manually input a certain key on Steam?

• users visit twitch.tv/drops
• users are invited to link their Twitch account to your clientID
• they do this by being directed to your website
• you login WIth Twitch, which sets up the Twitch → You Connection
• you can then ask the user to login with Steam, you can ask for the right to add keys to a users steam account
• then when you get a drop notification for user X you look up user X’s steam account and assign the steam key.

This is how Rust works (granted it’s just steam workshop items so seperate system), and how humble bundle works. So check the Steam API

@tealspierre

Is there a function on the drops console or a certain API that can make it so that a steam game is automatically added to the user’s steam library (if the steam ID is successfully connected to Twitch)?

Twitch doesn’t provide this, only a “user has earned x drop” That drop and what the drop does can be anything using anyone elses API or your own

@tealspierre

Are we able to input an API developed specifically for our game so that once a user claims a drop via the Twitch Drops Inventory, he/she can get the item directly through the in-game mailbox? In order for this to happen, I believe there might be some sort of part on the dev console that lets us input a call back URL for the API created for our game; is there a method for us to do this?

What you do with the drops notification (and/or drops entitlement API) is up to you. Twitch only tells you that user x has been awarded a drop

What you do with that is all custom and outside Twitch’s realm