Twitch: "Please send us API feedback!" Me: "You need an IsStreamerLive endpoint that sites can embed without a client ID." Twitch: "Thanks for the feedback. We've gone ahead and done the opposite of that. You now need both the client ID _and_ an OAuth token!" Me: "I give up."
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What's much more likely is Casey is just one of those game programmers who doesn't understand "the web", despite of course making all the websites for his company, and running a server which properly masks the client ID through a proxy, unlike most sites which just leak it.
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Because that would mean Casey knows a lot about web architecture, security, encryption, APIs, efficiency, reliability, and up time, which of course would mean we'd have to take him seriously when he pointed out that our web architecture was a gigantic pile of shit.
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Having to scrape it is a pretty big dissuading factor. They obviously don’t want people to use that info for whatever reason. I’ve written plenty of scrapers for into I legitimately needed, it’s a PITA. I’m not saying it’s perfect, but there are reasons not to make it easy.

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Speaking of bad web apis, don’t worry Twitter, you don’t need an edit button because everyone spells everything perfectly the first time. -.-
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