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CorneliousJD

Anybody familiar with the Twitch.tv APIs?

Basically we want to tweak monstream.tv a bit more, and have it show things like the current stream name and what game is being played, etc, kind of like www.vidyavidya.de does. I can't find the right section of documentation to pull/display that API.

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bloodynosepicker

Isn't this what you're looking for?

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CorneliousJD

That's a good starting point, I'll have to figure out how to get it to actually display on a website and CSS it too.

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bloodynosepicker

You just need to make a curl request to your stream (https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/yourchannelname). Then json_decode (assoc) the response and you'll have a nice array with stream info. The rest is just displaying it wherever you want it :-)

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CorneliousJD

This is a really good start, but I might need someone a bit more web-savvy to help me get the API pull/request integrated. We run wordpress with a custom theme up, so formatting it and getting it laid out properly is going to be rough.

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bloodynosepicker

If you know what stream info you want and where to display it then I might be able to help you.
I have ~1 hour experience with Wordpress but i managed to do this. By default it shows my twitch.tv channel, but you can change it to whatever you want by using a "stream" variable:
?stream=monstream
?stream=taketv - this one is online right now
Moving stuff around with your custom theme shouldn't be that hard to do :-)

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CorneliousJD

I don't REALLY need an online/offline indicator, as the stream itself will do that (we have an offline image up)

I'd ideally like it to show the title of the stream - and the game we are currently streaming and some sort of IF statement that if we're offline it says "Monstream is not currently live" instead of "Now Playing: %GAME%" If that's possible.

Also a number of viewers displayed in text would be ideal, as I like to see that info at-a-glance rather than hovering over the video.

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bloodynosepicker

Ok, my previous example was static so I came up with onother one - this time it dynamicaly refreshes stream info.
JS file
Working example

It's really simple:

  • 2nd line: change channel name to "monstream"
  • 25th line: set refresh interval in miliseconds (currently it's 5 seconds (5000ms))
  • parseResponse function: change it to whatever you like to display stream data
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CorneliousJD

shoot man, thank you so much. I'm going to start implementing this right now and I'll test it all out. I added you on Steam, I might need to shoot you a message or two but I'm hoping this does it for me :)

EDIT: After messaging you on Steam we got this working, thank you!

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Jonex

My god, it's been forever since I've heard from Cornelious! I don't know anything about Twitch, but it's good to hear from you!

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CorneliousJD

Thanks sir! Been extremely busy, got a job situation change, got married, bought a house, all exciting things, but I'm finally able to set aside some time at least a few nights a week to game, and stream :)

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Jonex

Oh wow! Congratulations, that's great to hear! It's good that you're getting some free time now, should I say welcome back? Yes, I will. Welcome back :)

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CorneliousJD

Thanks sir! Yes, I have some nice things up my sleeve coming, been sitting on over $2k worth of codes to give out - so be sure to keep an eye on Monstream ;)

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honglong17

Is that change is the reason i can't enter Monstream today ? Cornelious

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CorneliousJD

The site should work fine, are you getting an error? Screenshots? I'm not sure why it would cause an issue, I haven't implemented anything yet.

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honglong17

wrong address, sorry i got into the wrong site, i make mistake between monstream.tv and monstream.net . That what happen google fail to get what you want

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CorneliousJD

Ah ok, good to know. I was checking with chrome, IE, safari, and firefox, to see if anything i had changed made it blow up in one of them :P

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Closed 12 years ago by CorneliousJD.