How to verify if a Twitch channel is currently broadcasting

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I’m building a Java application that needs to monitor whether a specific Twitch streamer is currently online. The goal is to return a boolean value indicating the streaming status. I’m using minimal json library for parsing the API response.

Here’s what I’ve implemented so far:

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import com.eclipsesource.json.JsonObject;

public class StreamChecker {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        TwitchMonitor monitor = new TwitchMonitor();
        monitor.setVerbose(true);
        monitor.connect("irc.twitch.tv", 6667, "oauth_token");
    }
    
    public boolean checkChannelStatus() {
        try {
            URL apiUrl = new URL("https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/somestreamer");
            URLConnection connection = apiUrl.openConnection();
            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
            String response = reader.readLine();
            reader.close();
            JsonObject jsonResponse = JsonObject.readFrom(response);
            return jsonResponse.get("stream").isNull() ? false : true;
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
        return false;
    }
}

I’m wondering about the return behavior. When the method returns false, should I expect to see “false” printed in the console output automatically, or do I need to handle the display myself?

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heads up - kraken api is deprecated, switch to helix api. also ur main method isn’t calling checkChannelStatus() so nothing prints. add System.out.println(monitor.checkChannelStatus()) to see the result