README.md

In DavidDorn/twitcher: An R interface to the Twitch API

twitcher - R wrapper functions for the twitch.tv API

This package contains a bunch of functions to interact with the New twitch.tv API ("helix") that I wrote for my PhD research. It is currently limited to endpoints useful for data gathering purposes (i.e. collection of current top streams, retrieving game and user info, collecting followers of a given account etc.), as this is what I'm using for my own research.

Authentification

All functions require authentification via a valid twitch client id, such as an app access token (you can learn how to obtain one here). This limits the number of requests to 30 per minute, which is enough to look up stream, game and user_info but struggles with pulling followers which can reach tens of millions.

Endpoints currently implemented:

get_streams

Fetches the current top stream by viewers. API reference

get_games

Fetches game info from twitch (if you already have game-ids, i.e. es returned by the get_streams function). API reference

get_users

Fetches user info for given userids (as returned by the get_streams function). API reference

get_followers

Fetches a given user's followers. API reference

get_tags

Fetches all tags used by twitch.tv. API reference

get_stream_tags

Fetches the tags of a given stream (as identified by user-id of a user currently broadcasting). API reference

get active_user_extensions

API reference

Endpoints not yet implemented

get_videos

API reference

DavidDorn/twitcher documentation built on April 24, 2021, 8:43 a.m.