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Managing Channel and Video Data with the Twitch API in JavaScript

Explore the Twitch API in JavaScript. Gain insights into managing live streams, games, channels, and videos through REST API endpoints. Discover seamless integration for your projects.

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Twitch is a popular live streaming service for users who want to broadcast themselves playing games or watch others play their favorite games. Viewers can also chat with streamers, making it a highly interactive platform. You’ll use Twitch API to manage the live streams, games, and channels. In this course, you’ll learn the Twitch REST API endpoints of Users, Channels, Streams, Videos, and Clips. These endpoints cover the entire spectrum of the functionality offered by Twitch. By the end of this course, you’ll be familiar with the fundamentals of the Twitch API and will be able to handle integrations into your projects.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

An understanding of Twitch API and its ecosystem of channels and games

An understanding of users and channels management

The ability to create, delete, and update stream schedules for channels

The ability to create clips from ongoing live streams

The ability to fetch data about ongoing and future live streams and videos

An understanding of Twitch API and its ecosystem of channels and games

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

API Integration

JavaScript

Content

22 Lessons

Introduction

4 Lessons

Get familiar with leveraging the Twitch API for managing channels, streams, and videos.

Introduction to the Course

Twitch API Overview

Get Started

Generate Access Tokens

Users

4 Lessons

Get started with managing user data, modifying profiles, and handling follows, subscriptions, and blocks.

Basic User Details

Modify User Details

Follows and Subscriptions

Blocking Users

Channels

3 Lessons

Go hands-on with searching, retrieving, and modifying Twitch channel data via API.

Search for Channels

Basic Channel Details

Modify Channel Details

Streams

6 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of managing streams, tags, schedules, and categories using the Twitch API.

Modify Stream Schedules

Stream Categories

Videos and Clips

3 Lessons

Explore video details, retrieve clips, and create new clips from live streams on Twitch.

Get Videos

Get Clips

Create Clips

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Engage with Twitch’s tools and documentation to enhance your skills further.

Wrap Up!

Appendix

1 Lessons

Build on the essential user access token scopes for Twitch API authorization.

Scopes

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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