Add sortby and direction query parameters to Get Users Follows
Kraken equivalent[1] of Get Users Follows offers a way to sort query results by either creation date, last broadcast or login name. There's also a way to sort results in either ascending or descending order. Helix however doesn't offer any ways of sorting results of your query and results are always shown descending without giving you the option to get those in ascending order.
In case you need to fetch exactly the first follow or get followers that have been live last, it becomes problematic if your query has lots of results - you'd need to paginate through all of them and then go through all of them again and sort them on your end. Please add those features to Helix endpoints if possible.
[1] https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/v5/reference/users#get-user-follows
zneix
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Ceriath
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Yes. We really need that. And we actually need it for all (well, at least most) paged endpoints. Clips, Followers, Subscribers, ...
Or at least give us the option for offsets instead of cursors...v5 will be shut down by the end of the month and then we are required to run 500 requests to query 500k followers to find the first one? That's not really useful, neither for developers (rate limits!) nor the api (499 unneccessary requests)