Social platforms

Get a Twitch channel · Twitch API

GET/twitch/channels/{username}

$min $0.003

Returns a Twitch channel by login: display name, bio, follower count, live status, recent videos and similar streamers. Returns `not_found` when the channel does not exist.

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Request

curl https://api.unifapi.com/twitch/channels/{username} \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"

Parameters

usernamepathrequired: Twitch channel login, as in twitch.tv/{username}.
: The parameter for this Twitch operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.

Overview

This operation is part of the Twitch API in the social platforms category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.

Use it when a workflow needs Twitch public data alongside other social networks, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.

Common agent workflows

Resolve a public Twitch identity into structured profile metadata for enrichment agents.
Refresh creator, company, or account snapshots without managing source-specific response shapes.
Give an AI agent a stable Twitch data source without building a per-platform integration.
Normalize Twitch responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.

Response shape

Unified envelope, platform-native fields

Lookup responses return one canonical object in `data` with stable identifiers, source URLs where available, and platform-specific metadata normalized into predictable JSON.
The operation has a 3 credits ($0.003) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
A not-found or invalid-input condition uses the unified UnifAPI error shape, so callers do not need special handling for each source platform.

Response status codes

200400401402404429500502503

Billing

This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 3 credits ($0.003) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.

Errors and retries

Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.

Response fields

Fields in the data object

A successful Get a Twitch channel call returns one data object with these fields (12 of 15 shown — the docs list the full schema).

platformstring | null: Social platform for this profile. One of: twitch.
usernamestring | null: Twitch login without a leading @.
display_namestring | null: Public display name on the Twitch profile.
biostring | null: Profile description text.
avatar_urlstring | null: Best available profile image URL.
banner_urlstring | null: Profile banner image URL when available.
profile_urlstring | null: Canonical public Twitch channel URL.
platform_user_idstring | null: Twitch user id as a string when available.
is_partnerboolean | null: Whether the channel is a Twitch Partner when known.
is_liveboolean | null: Whether the channel is currently live when known.
current_viewers_countnumber | null: Current live viewer count when the channel is live.
social_linksobject | null: Linked social accounts when available.

Related endpoints

More Twitch operations

Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.

GET/twitch/channels/{username}/schedule