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Twitch is a live streaming service and global community for content spanning gaming, entertainment, music, sports, and more. Use this tag for questions related to the Twitch API, Extensions, Drops, or EventSub.

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Python - a bytes like object is required, not str

I'm moving my Twitch bot from Python 2.7 to Python 3.5. I keep getting the error: a bytes like object is required not 'str' on the 2nd line of the code below. twitchdata = irc.recv(1204) data = twitchdata.split(":")[1] twitchuser =…
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How to loop a task in discord.py

I am experimenting with making my own little discord bot that can get information from Twitch, but I'm stumped on how to make the bot loop and check for a condition. I want the bot to loop a section of code every few seconds that checks if the…
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How does Twitch keep a persistent video window over several pages?

Twitch has introduced a functionality that, when you've opened a stream page and navigate to a different part of the site, allows the video to keep playing in the bottom left corner without any interruption. This even works when pressing the back…
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How to make create-react-app support .mjs files with webpack?

I'm trying to work with this twitch npm package (https://www.npmjs.com/package/twitch) and am running into some issues when deploying via creat-react-app / react-scripts. From my understanding, the webpack config that is bundled with…
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Running Flask & a Discord bot in the same application

I am building a Discord bot in Python and would like to receive HTTP requests from Twitch.tv's API (See Webhooks Guide & Webhooks Reference) (To subscribe to events like; X streamer has gone live) and based on the content of the HTTP (POST or GET)…
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Show Twitch.tv stream within a unity3D application

I would like to make an Unity3D Application in which one can watch a current Twitch.tv live stream. I am not sure if this is possible, for example, with the twitch api (https://github.com/justintv/twitch-api) I know about the video textures in…
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Is There Any Way To Check if a Twitch Stream Is Live Using Python?

I'm just wondering if there is any way to write a python script to check to see if a twitch.tv stream is live? I'm not sure why my app engine tag was removed, but this would be using app engine.
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Stream MP4 video successfully to RTMP with FFMPEG

I'm attempted to stream an already recorded video file to twitch servers using FFMPEG but I only get audio so far no video. I've tried several settings, and different files (avi,etc) but I still get audio only. Here is my FFMPEG settings: ffmpeg…
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Trouble with RTMP ingest chunk stream

I am trying to build my own client RTMP library for an app that I am working on. So far everything has gone pretty successfully in that I am able to connect to the RTMP server negotiate the handshake and then send all the necessary packets…
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json_decode() returning error "Notice: Trying to get property of non-object"

I am trying to write a script that gets a JSON file from a remote location (in this case being twitch.tv) using cURL (don't think that part is too relevant, though I better mention it anyway). For example purposes, lets say the JSON object it…
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Testing streaming service (like selenium)

Good afternoon. I'm testing my company's streaming service, which works like twitch. The task is as follows: Log in to your account and simulate viewing the stream ( and chat) I was thinking of writing code in selenium. But as far as I understand,…
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record Linux Wayland/DRM screen using ffmpeg's kmsgrab device with superimposed webcam

Setup is Linux, ffmpeg using kabylake iGPU. I am capturing a running sway instance using the kmsgrab device, which requires the use of a hardware backend to coherently process the image on my hardware. Only VA API fits this bill. I want to overlay…
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Angular how can I use embed script in Component

I'm trying to set up in Angular a way of only showing Twitch player if the stream is online, so in the Documentation there is this inline HTML:
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Python - Wanting to pass data from one script to another while they are both running

So I'm making a Discord Bot that posts when a person goes live on Twitch.tv. At the moment I have a Python program that runs the bot and a program that runs a mini server to receive the data from the Twitch server(webhook). I am unsure on how to…
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Nodejs jQuery needs jsdom

$.getJSON('https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/' + SLoppierKitty7, function(channel) { if (channel["stream"] == null) { var live ="no" } else { var live ="yes" } that is my code but when i run it i get the following error…
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