{"id":52023,"date":"2021-07-19T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=52023"},"modified":"2021-07-19T21:47:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T21:47:11","slug":"kraken-is-dead-long-live-helix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/19\/kraken-is-dead-long-live-helix\/","title":{"rendered":"KRAKEN IS DEAD long live Helix!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week <em>finally<\/em> announced the deprecation data for Kraken also know as v5 Twitch&#8217;s legacy API.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find the details of which over on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitch.tv\/en\/2021\/07\/15\/legacy-twitch-api-v5-shutdown-details-and-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitch Blog<\/a> or TwitchDev&#8217;s Twitter at <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udce2 Today we are announcing the shutdown details and timeline for the Legacy Twitch API v5. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ATnFzVZtoy\">https:\/\/t.co\/ATnFzVZtoy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; TwitchDev (@TwitchDev) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitchDev\/status\/1415733839704494080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <strong>February 28th 2022<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For <strong>NEW <\/strong>developers looking to work with the Twitch API products, as of last week you can&#8217;t access the Legacy API at all, if you have <em>never <\/em>used the Legacy Twitch API you just can&#8217;t access it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>and those that have not made requests to the v5 API before July 15, 2021 will no longer be able to access v5.<\/p><cite>TwitchDev on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitch.tv\/en\/2021\/07\/15\/legacy-twitch-api-v5-shutdown-details-and-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blog<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Other things to note is the end of WebSub based Webhooks as well, that ends in September! Details about that are also on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitch.tv\/en\/2021\/06\/16\/deprecation-of-websub-based-webhooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitch Blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now is the time to get your feature requests for the New API and\/or any missing features into the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitch.uservoice.com\/forums\/310213-developers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitch Uservoice<\/a> theres a few new ones popped up recently for &#8220;missing&#8221; 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&#8217;m intersted in and\/or have created you can find that <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1qBSpjUNQWNruxGz1xku7rPXlCZybXSOGmbAATmLJKNs\/edit?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1qBSpjUNQWNruxGz1xku7rPXlCZybXSOGmbAATmLJKNs\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you need help on Migration from the Legacy API to New Twitch API, check the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.twitch.tv\/docs\/api\/migration\" target=\"_blank\">migration guide<\/a> or Join Us on the TwitchDev Discord or Forums, see the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.twitch.tv\/support\" target=\"_blank\">Developer Support page<\/a> for those links!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: This <em>also<\/em> effects a number of Extension EBS endpoints! Thankfully this sort of update won&#8217;t require extension review, since it&#8217;s EBS endpoints! Todays Announcement on that is <a href=\"https:\/\/discuss.dev.twitch.tv\/t\/how-extensions-are-affected-by-the-legacy-twitch-api-v5-shutdown\/32708\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here on the forums<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week finally announced the deprecation data for Kraken also know as v5 Twitch&#8217;s legacy API. You can find the details of which over on the Twitch Blog or TwitchDev&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/19\/kraken-is-dead-long-live-helix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KRAKEN IS DEAD long live Helix!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[88,45,312],"tags":[372,352,374,373,345],"class_list":["post-52023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-code-geekery","category-geekery","category-twitch","tag-deprecation","tag-extensions","tag-helix","tag-kraken","tag-twitch-api"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/twitchdevblog2.jpg?fit=1280%2C780&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52023"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52032,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52023\/revisions\/52032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrycarlyon.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}