Month: July 2021

Twitch to Discord Notifications

This post is about a thing I built that has been public for a while, but I never wrote up a blog post about it.

A common question that comes up in various places, is “How do I notify my Discord that my Twitch Stream went live”, so since I had some time and wanted to build a demo project that shows people how do to that, since it’s a common thing, it’s easier to point people to an example.

I decided to build BarryCarlyon’s Super Simple Discord Notifications Platform.

It’s a super simple implementation of Twitch EventSub to notify a Discord Channel that a Twitch Stream has gone live.

The long and short of it is fairly straight forward

  • a Twitch EventSub message arrives into server
  • the Server parses that message
  • the Server checks if the target channel is live or not (just in case it’s a duplicate message)
  • if the checks pass, build a Discord Webhook message
  • Send that message to the linked Discord Channel via Discord Webhooks

The project is fully open source and licensed under “WTFPL – Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License” and can be found at the following places

The live version of the project only allows the logged in Twitch user to link their Twitch to a Discord, so you can’t login as you and say “I want to know when Lirik goes live”, this means that my EventSub cost is zero since you logged in as you and only looking to notify for your own stream. So I fit easily into the EventSub limit since the cost is zero. If you were cloning the project/logic to use your own ClientID then you don’t need to worry about getting auth since you probably are not gonna link 3000 or so streamers go lives into the same Discord channel!

So in summary, check out the Project, use it for your own stream/discord if you want, or borrow the logic flow from GitHub to do your own stuff with EventSub to Discord. And as always all feature requests and suggestions welcome! It was already requested to allow a Customised Discord message to support new/multiple lines in the message and that went in last week!

KRAKEN IS DEAD long live Helix!

Last week finally announced the deprecation data for Kraken also know as v5 Twitch’s legacy API.

You can find the details of which over on the Twitch Blog or TwitchDev’s Twitter at

For many Developers using Twitch API products this means little beyond there being a date to make sure you have moved everything you need to to Helix/New API. And that date is February 28th 2022.

Twitch will also be running a phased Shutdown timeline with periodic outages on the Legacy API of increasing length during the start February starting on the 7th at 11am PDT, and full details of that are on the earlier linked blog post.

For NEW developers looking to work with the Twitch API products, as of last week you can’t access the Legacy API at all, if you have never used the Legacy Twitch API you just can’t access it.

and those that have not made requests to the v5 API before July 15, 2021 will no longer be able to access v5.

TwitchDev on the blog

Other things to note is the end of WebSub based Webhooks as well, that ends in September! Details about that are also on the Twitch Blog

So now is the time to get your feature requests for the New API and/or any missing features into the Twitch Uservoice theres a few new ones popped up recently for “missing” New API features. So get your voice heard on missing things. Or you can check out my super exiting Google Doc I have for tracking a number of User Voices I’m intersted in and/or have created you can find that here!

And if you need help on Migration from the Legacy API to New Twitch API, check the migration guide or Join Us on the TwitchDev Discord or Forums, see the Developer Support page for those links!

Update: This also effects a number of Extension EBS endpoints! Thankfully this sort of update won’t require extension review, since it’s EBS endpoints! Todays Announcement on that is here on the forums