I’m struggling to get a Twitch player embedded in my local HTML file to function as it should. The same code works just fine in online code playgrounds.
When I run the code on my machine, the player buttons don’t seem to respond, and the event listeners are inactive. I suspect this might be because the Twitch script doesn’t finish loading before the player is initialized, though I’m not certain how to resolve it.
I attempted to ensure the script fully loads before the player is created, but that hasn’t fixed the issue. The console logs show that crucial events like ‘ready’ and ‘play’ aren’t firing in the local setup, and the channel properties are missing data as well.
Has anyone faced a similar problem? What might be causing the Twitch player to not function correctly in my HTML file while it works fine in online editors?
Yeah, this timing issue happens all the time with Twitch embeds. The script loads async, so your player tries to initialize before everything’s ready. Don’t just wait for the script - you need to wait for the actual Twitch object. Wrap your player code in a function that checks if window.Twitch exists. If it doesn’t, use setTimeout to keep polling until it’s there. I hit this exact issue last month and polling fixed it completely. Online editors work differently because of their iframe setup, which hides this race condition. Also check that you don’t have ad blockers running locally - they can mess with Twitch’s script loading.
Classic CORS issue. Online editors serve files through their servers, which handle cross-origin requests fine. But when you open HTML files directly in your browser, it uses the file:// protocol - and Twitch API blocks those requests for security reasons.
Set up a local dev server instead. Run “python -m http.server 8000” in your project folder, then go to http://localhost:8000. This’ll fix the CORS restrictions and your Twitch player should initialize properly with all events working.
sounds like a file permission issue. browsers are way more restrictive with local files than hosted ones. just drop ur html file in a folder and use the live server extension if ur on vscode - beats command line hassle and sets up the server automatically.