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Twitch Videos API. Past broadcasts, highlights and uploads, page by page.

Past broadcasts, highlights and uploads of a channel. We handle the proxies, blocks and platform changes.

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Twitch Videos API at a glance

Returns a public Twitch channel's past broadcasts, highlights and uploads, newest or most viewed first, from its login, link or numeric ID. Each video has its link, signed playlist, title, description, publish time, length, exact views, language, thumbnail and storyboard, its category, whether it is still recording or kept from logged-out viewers, Twitch's content labels, and the channel that made it.

GET /v1/twitch/videos

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  • 1 credit per page, $0.75–$1.97 per 1,000 pages
  • 22 typed fields null when unknown
  • 100 past broadcasts, highlights and uploads per page, newest first
  • handle is all it needs, e.g. ninja

Send one request. Get up to 100 past broadcasts, highlights and uploads back.

Copy the request in your language, or hand it to your agent. Sign up for an API key and your first 100 credits are free.

$ npm install socialtap
handle = ninja
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GET /v1/twitch/videosTry in
const params = new URLSearchParams({
  handle: "ninja",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/twitch/videos?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`);
const { data, page, meta } = body;
console.log(data, meta.credits_charged);
200 OK · GET https://socialtap.dev/v1/twitch/videosLong arrays and strings are shortened here. Real responses are complete.Docs

One schema on 21 platforms.

The response reference lists every field, its type and when it is null. See the full schema.

  • Null means unknown

    A field Twitch doesn't show is null, never zero or an empty string, so a real zero always means zero.

  • What it accepts

    The Twitch channel: its login with or without the @ (ninja), a channel link with any tab after it (twitch.tv/ninja/videos), or its numeric ID (19571641).

  • Write one parser

    Twitch, TikTok, Instagram and 18 more platforms answer in these fields, so the code that reads one reads them all.

platformstring
Platform ID (tiktok, youtube, …).
idstring
Platform-native post ID (string; Instagram shortcode, Reddit with its t3_ prefix).
urlstring
Canonical post URL.
typestring
Normalized content shape. New values may be added; treat unknown values as other.
platform_typestring
The platform's own product label, lowercase (reel, short, story, live, tweet, …).
titlestring
Headline (YouTube title, Reddit title); null on caption-only platforms.
textstring
Caption, description or body as plain text.
languagestring
BCP-47 language of text, when the platform states it.

Live data from 33 platforms.

TikTokInstagramFacebookYouTubeRedditThreadsSpotifyAmazonApple MusicPinterestRumbleXBlueskyTwitchLinkedInTelegramTikTok ShopKwaiSnapchatSoundCloudTruth SocialKickKomiLnk.BioLinkmeLinktreePillarTikTok Ad LibraryFacebook Ad LibraryFacebook EventsFacebook MarketplaceGoogle Ads Transparency CenterLinkedIn Ad Library

What teams build with the Twitch Videos API.

  • Monitor a channel for new broadcasts and highlights

  • Find a streamer's most viewed videos

  • Benchmark views across a channel's broadcasts

  • Collect a channel's videos to transcribe or clip

Good to know before you build.

  • Each list stops at its first 100 videos (all or one type, newest or most viewed), because Twitch refuses anonymous requests past them with an integrity check. A list that goes on ends there with page.end_reason platform_limit. To read more of a channel, ask for each type and both sorts.
  • Newest orders by when Twitch made each video, and published_at can be later on a highlight or an upload, so only type=archive is strictly by published_at. There, since ends the walk. On the other types, since and until filter the page.
  • text is the video's description, which most past broadcasts don't have, and is null then.
  • is_nsfw is true when Twitch marks the video with any content classification label but politics and sensitive social issues, such as a mature-rated game, gambling, drugs, violence or sexual themes. platform_specific.twitch.content_labels lists them all in Twitch's own words.
  • media[0].url is the video's playlist (HLS, every quality Twitch gives a logged-out viewer and audio only), signed, and works from any network until expires_at, which is less than a day away, so fetch a fresh one rather than store it. A cached answer keeps the links it was fetched with, so a max_age longer than that can return expired links.
  • A video Twitch keeps from logged-out viewers, usually for the channel's subscribers, returns every other field, with platform_specific.twitch.is_restricted true and media[0].url null.
  • A channel with no videos returns an empty page, one Twitch has taken down returns private_or_unavailable, and a name nobody holds, or a channel its owner closed, returns not_found.
  • If Twitch's API is down, the channel's Videos page can answer type=all, newest, by login: its latest few videos, with no type, category, labels, playlist or is_restricted, and views as of when Twitch last drew the page (metrics.view_count in approximate_fields).

1 credit per page. Failed requests are free.

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Plans and packsHow this endpoint is pricedHow credits work

SourcePrice per successful pagePer 1,000 pages
Any source1 credit$0.75–$1.97
  • Cache hits are free.
  • Credits from packs and top-ups never expire.
  • A monthly plan's credits are spent first, and what is left of them ends at each renewal.
  • Prices exclude tax: sales tax is added at checkout where it applies.
  • Outside the US, plans and packs are sold to businesses: checkout asks for your VAT, GST or other business tax ID.

Questions about the Twitch Videos API.

More in the API reference.

How much does the Twitch Videos API cost?
A page of up to 100 past broadcasts, highlights and uploads costs 1 credit. Every successful page is charged, empty pages included. SocialTap credits cost $0.75–$1.97 per 1,000, depending on the plan or pack.
How do I get the next page?
Repeat the same request with cursor set to page.next_cursor from the previous response, keeping the other parameters. When page.has_more is false there are no more pages. Cursors expire after 1 hour.

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  • Failed requests are free
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