How to get notifications when Twitch streamers go live

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I’m working on connecting my app to Twitch’s API so I can track when users start broadcasting. I’ve been digging through their documentation but I can’t find any webhook or notification system that would ping my server when someone goes live.

Does anyone know if there’s a third-party service that handles this kind of streaming status monitoring? I really don’t want to constantly poll their API for every user in my database because that would probably crash my server with too many requests.

My goal is pretty simple - when one of my users starts streaming on Twitch, I want to automatically create a post on their social feed to let their followers know they’re live. Has anyone tackled something similar before?

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Twitch’s EventSub webhooks do exactly this. Subscribe to the stream.online event and they’ll POST to your endpoint when streamers go live. Setup’s a bit involved - you need to verify your webhook and handle subscriptions - but it beats polling by miles. I’ve been using it for six months on a similar project and it’s rock solid. Just make sure your endpoint handles their verification challenge during setup. Look under EventSub in the docs, not the regular API section (easy to miss). No rate limiting headaches since they push notifications instead of you constantly hitting their servers.