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Managing Channels and Video Data with the Twitch API in Python

Gain insights into using Twitch's REST API in Python. Learn about managing user profiles, channels, creating schedules, and clipping videos to enhance your development projects.

Beginner

22 Lessons

1h 30min

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into using Twitch's REST API in Python. Learn about managing user profiles, channels, creating schedules, and clipping videos to enhance your development projects.

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What You'll Learn

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Course Overview

Twitch is a popular live streaming service for users who want to broadcast themselves playing games or watch others play their favorite games. Viewers can also chat with streamers, making it a highly interactive platform. In this course, we’ll walk you through Twitch's REST API. The Twitch API provides many tools that developers can use in their applications, such as managing user profiles and channels, creating and updating streaming schedules, and clipping videos. By the end of this course, you'll be fam...Show More

What You'll Learn

Learn to fetch and update details for Twitch users and channels.

Learn to search for channels and games on Twitch.

Learn to update the stream schedule for channels.

Learn to fetch data regarding ongoing live streams and videos.

Learn to create clips from ongoing live streams.

Learn to fetch and update details for Twitch users and channels.

Course Content

Introduction

4 Lessons

Get familiar with utilizing the Twitch API, its endpoints, and integration processes.

Introduction to the Course

Twitch API Overview

Get Started

Generate Access Tokens

Users

4 Lessons

Look at retrieving, modifying, and managing Twitch user details through API endpoints.

Basic User Details

Modify User Details

Follows and Subscriptions

Blocking Users

Channels

3 Lessons

Examine searching, retrieving, and modifying Twitch channel information using the API efficiently.

Search for Channels

Basic Channel Details

Modify Channel Details

Streams

6 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of managing active streams, followed streams, tags, schedules, and categories.

Modify Stream Schedules

Stream Categories

Videos and Clips

3 Lessons

Take a closer look at retrieving and creating videos and clips using the Twitch API.

Get Videos

Get Clips

Create Clips

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Investigate foundational knowledge and explore potential use cases with the Twitch API.

Wrap Up!

Appendix

1 Lessons

Approach access token scopes essential for authorized Twitch API calls.

Scopes

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