Stream Categories
Learn to search for and retrieve top categories using the Twitch API.
Twitch categories
Each stream has at least one game—or category as they’re called on Twitch—associated with it that the streamer will be playing online. Streamers can also divide their streams into chapters, where each chapter has a separate category associated with it. This helps viewers find their streams based on the games they want to see being played.
Search for games
Since there's a massive number of video games, there's a vast number of categories on Twitch. Fortunately, we can use the category search endpoint to search through these games.
The URL for this endpoint is as follows:
https://api.twitch.tv/helix/search/categories
All calls to this endpoint need to be authorized with either an app or a user access token. We'll use an app access token in this lesson.
Input parameters
This endpoint takes a single required parameter, the search query, and a couple of optional parameters we can use to filter the search results. The table below gives an overview of these ...