Is There Any Way To Check if a Twitch Stream Is Live Using Python?

Question

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

Answer 1

Use the twitch api with your client_id as a parameter, then parse the json:

https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/massansc?client_id=XXXXXXX

Twitch Client Id is explained here: https://dev.twitch.tv/docs#client-id, you need to register a developer application: https://www.twitch.tv/kraken/oauth2/clients/new

Example:

import requests
import json

def is_live_stream(streamer_name, client_id):

    twitch_api_stream_url = "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/" \
                    + streamer_name + "?client_id=" + client_id

    streamer_html = requests.get(twitch_api_stream_url)
    streamer = json.loads(streamer_html.content)

    return streamer["stream"] is not None