Parse JSON returned by twitch

Question

I am currently developing a twitch bot that monitors the users in the chat.

This site link will give you every user in the twitch stream / irc chat: http://tmi.twitch.tv/group/user/lirik/chatters.

For example I have given you lirik's chat. I need to get the folowing from the site:

"_links": {},
  "chatter_count": 0,
  "chatters": {
    "moderators": [],
    "staff": [],
    "admins": [],
    "global_mods": [],
    "viewers": []

Here is the code I have written so far to connect to the site and read the text:

WebClient web = new WebClient();
System.IO.Stream stream = web.OpenRead("http://tmi.twitch.tv/group/user/lirik/chatters");
using (System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(stream))
{
    String text = reader.ReadToEnd();
}

How can I turn the text from the site into multiple arrays?

when actually you would like to stop it and create a new array? — Slashy, Aug 15 '15 at 18:34
@Slashy I would like to retrieve the array, or turn it into an array in my program. I need hold of the text in an array. — Cooper Scott, Aug 15 '15 at 18:36
i understand but you're getting the content as string. So we would have to sort the string a split every time some content to array. that's why im asking when would you like to stop? each `,`? — Slashy, Aug 15 '15 at 18:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '15 at 18:38

You are actually looking for Desiarializing Json into C# class.

So you should create class that describes your json structure ant then just use this kind of code:

YourClass jsonDeserializeObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(text); //it's your text here

For more information of how you should write your class you can read msdn.

Parse JSON returned by twitch

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