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.
Read moreDoes Twitch use gRPC?
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.
Read moreDoes Twitch have an API?
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.
Read moreDoes Twitch use Golang?
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.
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