Twitch Channel Scraper

Extract Twitch channel profiles, live stream status, VODs, clips, and stream schedules — no account, login, or API key needed.

Why use this actor

• One actor covers a channel's full public footprint: profile + live status, past broadcasts (VODs), top/trending clips, and upcoming schedule
• No Twitch account, OAuth app, or API key required — works exactly like an anonymous visit to twitch.tv
• Structured, stable JSON output suitable for pipelines, spreadsheets, or dashboards
• Automatic retries on temporary network hiccups
• Honest about limits: if a channel has more videos/clips than fit in one page, every row is flagged so you know more exist (see Known limits below) — nothing is silently dropped

How it works

Pick a mode and one or more channel logins:

1. channel — profile info (bio, followers, creation date) plus live status (is it live right now, viewer count, current game, stream title).
2. videos — the channel's past broadcasts, highlights, or uploads.
3. clips — the channel's top or trending community-made clips.
4. schedule — upcoming scheduled streams.

Input

Channel profile + live status (default mode):

{
  "mode": "channel",
  "logins": ["shroud", "xqc"],
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Videos:

{
  "mode": "videos",
  "login": "shroud",
  "limit": 20,
  "videoType": "ARCHIVE",
  "videoSort": "TIME"
}

Clips:

{
  "mode": "clips",
  "login": "shroud",
  "limit": 20,
  "clipsPeriod": "ALL_TIME",
  "clipsSort": "VIEWS_DESC"
}

Schedule:

{
  "mode": "schedule",
  "login": "shroud"
}

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	"channel" (default), "videos", "clips", or "schedule".
login	string	A single channel login (the part after twitch.tv/ in the URL).
logins	array	Multiple channel logins to process in one run.
limit	integer	Max videos/clips returned per channel. Default 20, max 100 — see Known limits.
videoType	string	videos mode: ARCHIVE (past broadcasts, default), HIGHLIGHT, UPLOAD, PAST_PREMIERE, PREMIERE_UPLOAD.
videoSort	string	videos mode: TIME (newest first, default) or VIEWS (most viewed first).
clipsPeriod	string	clips mode: LAST_DAY, LAST_WEEK, LAST_MONTH, or ALL_TIME (default).
clipsSort	string	clips mode: VIEWS_DESC (default) or TRENDING.
maxConcurrency	integer	How many channels to fetch in parallel. Default 4.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. Residential is on by default (not required for this endpoint, kept for production robustness).

Output

Channel mode — one record per login:

{
  "_input": "xqc",
  "_source": "S1-gql",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-25T18:43:19Z",
  "id": "71092938",
  "login": "xqc",
  "displayName": "xQc",
  "description": "THE BEST AT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING...",
  "createdAt": "2014-09-12T23:50:05.989719Z",
  "profileImageURL": "https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/xqc-profile_image-...-300x300.jpeg",
  "bannerImageURL": "https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/....jpeg",
  "primaryColorHex": "FFBF00",
  "followersCount": 12537124,
  "isLive": true,
  "streamId": "319959993950",
  "streamTitle": "...",
  "streamType": "live",
  "viewersCount": 26109,
  "streamStartedAt": "2026-08-25T17:34:35Z",
  "gameName": "Special Events",
  "gameBoxArtURL": "https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/ttv-boxart/509663-{width}x{height}.jpg",
  "tags": null,
  "lastBroadcastStartedAt": "2026-08-25T17:34:40.483789Z",
  "lastBroadcastTitle": "..."
}

Videos mode — one record per VOD:

{
  "_input": "shroud",
  "_source": "S1-gql",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-25T18:43:02Z",
  "channelLogin": "shroud",
  "channelTotalVideoCount": 1551,
  "_truncatedToFirstPage": true,
  "videoId": "2854436054",
  "title": "stream stops when my bank account hits 0$",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-23T17:44:06Z",
  "viewCount": 489694,
  "lengthSeconds": 29261,
  "previewThumbnailURL": "https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/.../thumb0-{width}x{height}.jpg",
  "gameName": "WARDOGS",
  "url": "https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2854436054"
}

Clips mode — one record per clip:

{
  "_input": "shroud",
  "_source": "S1-gql",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-25T18:43:03Z",
  "channelLogin": "shroud",
  "_truncatedToFirstPage": true,
  "clipId": "2358589597",
  "slug": "TangentialBillowingJalapenoYee-ccA2oB1pEYh4CHWJ",
  "title": "F Shroud",
  "viewCount": 562406,
  "createdAt": "2023-06-02T11:41:50Z",
  "durationSeconds": 28,
  "url": "https://www.twitch.tv/shroud/clip/TangentialBillowingJalapenoYee-ccA2oB1pEYh4CHWJ",
  "thumbnailURL": "https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/.../thumb-0000000000-1920x1080.jpg",
  "curatorLogin": "pato_bolado"
}

Schedule mode — one record per upcoming stream segment:

{
  "_input": "shroud",
  "_source": "S1-gql",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-25T18:43:04Z",
  "channelLogin": "shroud",
  "segmentId": "eyJzZWdtZW50SUQi...",
  "title": null,
  "startAt": "2026-08-27T18:00:00Z",
  "endAt": "2026-08-28T02:00:00Z",
  "isCancelled": false,
  "hasReminder": false,
  "categories": null,
  "isNextSegment": true
}

A record with _error instead of the fields above means that channel could not be processed (for example, "_error": "channel_not_found" for a username that doesn't exist).

Known limits

• Deep pagination is not available. Twitch enforces a device-integrity check for any page beyond the first, which an HTTP-only client cannot satisfy. videos/clips modes return at most 100 items — the most recent (or most-viewed, depending on sort) — never the full archive on channels with more than 100. Every row is flagged with _truncatedToFirstPage: true when more exist, so this is never silent.
• Chat messages, follower/following lists, and raw stream video (HLS) are out of scope — this actor covers public channel metadata only.
• schedule mode returns the near-term window Twitch itself exposes (roughly 1–2 weeks out), not an arbitrarily long future schedule.