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Check Whether a Twitch Stream Is Live

Check the live stream returned for a Twitch login and inspect its details.

Look up a Twitch login and inspect the live stream returned by Twitch.

Setup

Register a Twitch application and obtain an app or user OAuth access token for the same client ID. In Open Flow, bind the token as a secret Variable to Look up the stream, and run with the login and client ID. In n8n, set the login in Document, set your client ID in Twitch GraphQL, and configure its header credential with name Authorization and value Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN. Refresh or replace the token when it expires.

Behavior

A returned live stream includes its ID, viewer count, title, type, and game ID when available. An empty result means Twitch returned no discoverable live stream for that login. It may be offline, unknown, or restricted from discovery; it does not prove the account exists or is offline. Request and authentication errors stop the workflow.

Inspiration & credits

Changes to the source

Both formats replace the source’s undocumented website GraphQL endpoint and shared client ID with Twitch’s Get Streams API, using your client ID and OAuth token. They map the returned fields to the source’s stream shape.
Open Flow returns an online boolean and a stream object or null. n8n routes the mapped stream through an explicit boolean condition.

Adapted from Check a Twitch stream in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The source export does not identify a separate template author or license.

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