Add game title to Get Streams for convenience
Adding the commonly-used game title field to the Get Streams endpoint payload (similar to the addition of user name) will allow developers to make less calls for the data needed. In other words, Get Games would not need to be called for every game id to get one more field.
AdminJon Bulava
(Developer Advocate Lead, Twitch)
shared this idea
“game_name” has been added as of November 13, 2020 (Twitch Developer Day). https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/twitch-developer-day-2020-recap-introducing-the-channel-points-api-eventsub-and-more/29249
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ScottRC
commented
This really does need to be done. Twitch is a game streaming platform and to have an API return a streams object that does not include the name of the game being played is a bit silly.
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Dkamps18
commented
Add the game_name to the get streams endpoint in addition to the game_id this saves us an extra unnecessary call compared to kraken