Twitch - Follower-related Endpoints - August 2023
This is an archived post from August 2023, originally posted on GitHub Gist.
I should've mentioned this when I first saw the original announcement, but I suppose now is better than never.
As announced on the Twitch developer forums, at September 6, 2023 5:00:00 PM UTC Twitch will begin the process of shutting down the now deprecated "Get User Follows" API endpoint.
This will affect the following DecAPI endpoints:
It would technically also affect the "followcount" API, but I plan on migrating that to their new API endpoint, so that should keep working as-is.
As for the other 4 endpoints listed above, please consider them to be deprecated in the short-term. Primarily 2 reasons for this:
- As I've stated in the past, I don't like having to deal with tokens (such as what subcount/subpoints require), which is now going to be required to retrieve the "follower relationship" between a channel and a user in the new API. The follower count of a channel does not require any authentication, so that should be fine as mentioned earlier.
- While DecAPI currently has support for authentication (subcount/subpoints), the implementation wasn't designed to support different sets of authentication permissions. I really want to revamp that whole system before I even attempt to tackle support of follower APIs and subscriber APIs side-by-side.
Even if I do decide to re-implement follower APIs, I plan on dropping both /twitch/followers (list of a channel's followers) and /twitch/following (list of channels the specified user is currently following - requires a separate authentication permission anyway) indefinitely.
My focus would then be primarily /twitch/followed (the date & date when a specific user followed a specific channel) and /twitch/followage (how long since a specific user followed a specific channel), but once again this isn't going to be something I do short-term.