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twitch-webhook
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Little Node.js module to interact with new Twitch Helix API Webhooks.
npm install --save twitch-webhook
Note: Twitch will return old payload for "users/follows" topic
if {first: 1}
is not specified
const TwitchWebhook = require('twitch-webhook')
const twitchWebhook = new TwitchWebhook({
client_id: 'Your Twitch Client ID',
callback: 'Your Callback URL',
secret: 'It\'s a secret', // default: false
lease_seconds: 259200, // default: 864000 (maximum value)
listen: {
port: 8080, // default: 8443
host: '127.0.0.1', // default: 0.0.0.0
autoStart: false // default: true
}
})
// set listener for all topics
twitchWebhook.on('*', ({ topic, options, endpoint, event }) => {
// topic name, for example "streams"
console.log(topic)
// topic options, for example "{user_id: 12826}"
console.log(options)
// full topic URL, for example
// "https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_id=12826"
console.log(endpoint)
// topic data, timestamps are automatically converted to Date
console.log(event)
})
// set listener for topic
twitchWebhook.on('users/follows', ({ event }) => {
console.log(event)
})
// subscribe to topic
twitchWebhook.subscribe('users/follows', {
first: 1,
from_id: 12826 // ID of Twitch Channel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
})
// renew the subscription when it expires
twitchWebhook.on('unsubscibe', (obj) => {
twitchWebhook.subscribe(obj['hub.topic'])
})
// tell Twitch that we no longer listen
// otherwise it will try to send events to a down app
process.on('SIGINT', () => {
// unsubscribe from all topics
twitchWebhook.unsubscribe('*')
// or unsubscribe from each one individually
twitchWebhook.unsubscribe('users/follows', {
first: 1,
to_id: 12826
})
process.exit(0)
})
FAQs
A Node JS library for new Twitch Helix API Webhooks
The npm package twitch-webhook receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, twitch-webhook popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that twitch-webhook demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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