Hi, So I’m very new to the whole Twitch API ecosystem. We plan to add a new feature to our application that provides live notifications when a certain streamer they follow goes live. We expect around 5-6k subscriptions. I was wondering which option is best for a large scale, polling the results via…

If you just need to know when a streamer is live or not then Webhooks would be the best option as 6k subscriptions is within the max subscriptions limit and would result in less useless data (as when polling a large portion of the time you’ll just be getting back the same data). One thing to note t…

alexoand November 4, 2020, 11:52pm 5

Got it, thank you!

Webhooks vs polling streams