(Webhook?) Get currently played game

[BarryCarlyon]

@Paragrimm

So the clientId and clientSecret is always kind of “exposed”.

clientSecret is NEVER exposed

@Paragrimm

And out of curiosity: why WebHooks and not WebSockets?

Cost/scale is a short answer

@Paragrimm

This returns the needed game data, but it’s just a “one time request” and not connected to something like a WebHook.

So well, what are my options now?

Yes the streamChange webhook which’ll give you the game ID, then lookup the gameID against the hexlix API.

This will account for any changes to the Game Art or the name of the game. This appears to be what you are already doing with twitchClient.helix.games.getGameByName but you need to switch to using getGameByID if this library you refer to supports it.

@Paragrimm

The only problem is: I want to use my Angular App locally… so the callback URL would be “localhost:1337”, which wouldn’t work…

Correct it would have to be on a “real server” that is web accessable. Sure you could open a port in your firewall, but that is NOT advised or suggested.