# Videos API intermittently returning null videos

**URL:** <https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/videos-api-intermittently-returning-null-videos/8555>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [December 17, 2016, 10:01am UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/videos-api-intermittently-returning-null-videos/8555 "2016-12-17T10:01:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Statia](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/statia/32/4872_2.png) [@Statia](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Statia)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 10:01am UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/videos-api-intermittently-returning-null-videos/8555/1 "2016-12-17T10:01:38Z")

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Using v5 of the Twitch API, I’m trying to get the past broadcast videos for a channel. Intermittently, the API returns null data as follows:

```
{
   "_total": 238,
   "videos": []
}

```

This is the endpoint I’m calling:

[https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/23161357/videos?broadcasts=true&limit=50&offset=350](https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/23161357/videos?broadcasts=true&limit=50&offset=350)

The offset value has no significance, the API randomly returns empty data regardless of the value. Try the same endpoint again, and you may get data back. Try again and you get empty data. It’s totally random.

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**Author:** ![BatedUrGonnaDie](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/batedurgonnadie/32/125_2.png) [@BatedUrGonnaDie](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BatedUrGonnaDie)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 10:49am UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/videos-api-intermittently-returning-null-videos/8555/2 "2016-12-17T10:49:38Z")

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Have you tried this already? [GET /channels/:channel/videos is returning inconsistent total of videos](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/get-channels-channel-videos-is-returning-inconsistent-total-of-videos/8531/4)

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**Author:** ![3ventic](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/3ventic/32/298_2.png) [@3ventic](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/3ventic)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 10:58am UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/videos-api-intermittently-returning-null-videos/8555/3 "2016-12-17T10:58:30Z")

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[v5 doesn’t support broadcasts parameter and uses broadcast\_type instead](https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/v5/reference/channels/#get-channel-videos).

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**Author:** ![Statia](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/statia/32/4872_2.png) [@Statia](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Statia)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 11:13am UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/videos-api-intermittently-returning-null-videos/8555/4 "2016-12-17T11:13:00Z")

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Thankyou, this appears to have fixed it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2spem0quai2ol.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 11:13am UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/videos-api-intermittently-returning-null-videos/8555/5 "2017-01-16T11:13:13Z")

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