Is There Any Way To Check if a Twitch Stream Is Live Using Python?

Question

I\'m just wondering if there is any way to write a python script to check to see if a twitch.tv stream is live?

I\'m not sure why my app engine tag was removed, but this

Answer 1

I'll try to shoot my shot, just in case someone still needs an answer to this, so here it goes

import requests
import time
from twitchAPI.twitch import Twitch

client_id = ""
client_secret = ""

twitch = Twitch(client_id, client_secret)
twitch.authenticate_app([])

TWITCH_STREAM_API_ENDPOINT_V5 = "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/{}"

API_HEADERS = {
    'Client-ID' : client_id,
    'Accept' : 'application/vnd.twitchtv.v5+json',
}

def checkUser(user): #returns true if online, false if not
    userid = twitch.get_users(logins=[user])['data'][0]['id']
    url = TWITCH_STREAM_API_ENDPOINT_V5.format(userid)
    try:
        req = requests.Session().get(url, headers=API_HEADERS)
        jsondata = req.json()
        if 'stream' in jsondata:
            if jsondata['stream'] is not None: 
                return True
            else:
                return False
    except Exception as e:
        print("Error checking user: ", e)
        return False

print(checkUser('michaelreeves'))