Does Twitch have an API?

Twitch offers an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) interface for chat functionality. Chatbots allow you to interact programmatically with a Twitch chat feed using IRC standards ; the bot connects to the Twitch IRC network as a client to perform these actions.

We use Go at Twitch for many of our busiest systems . Its simplicity, safety, performance, and readability make it a good tool for the problems we encounter with serving live video and chat to our millions of users.

Google provides a framework , gRPC, which does a very similar thing, and gRPC has grown to be pretty prominent. In fact, we started out at Twitch using gRPC.

The Twitch API is a RESTful API that lets developers build creative integrations for the broader Twitch community . To see how easy it is to integrate with the API, let’s use the Twitch CLI (command line interface) to get information about the TwitchDev user.