Twitch Scraper — Channels, Streams, Games, Clips & Leads

Turn any Twitch username, game, or search term into structured creator data — with socials and contact emails inline. Scrape full channel profiles, live streams by game, the top-games directory, VODs, clips, and stream schedules straight from Twitch's public GraphQL API. Every channel row carries follower counts, partner/affiliate status, live status, the streamer's social links, and the business email from their bio and panels — the lead-gen fields most Twitch scrapers skip. No browser, no login, no API key. JSON, CSV or Excel out, charged per result.

How it works

✨ Why use this scraper?

Building an influencer outreach list? Tracking who's live in your game category? Researching the streaming market, or monitoring a set of channels? Most Twitch actors give you follower counts and stop there — this one gives you the whole record and the way to reach the streamer.

• 🎯 8 modes, one actor. Channel profiles, keyword channel search, live streams by game, top streams, the top-games directory, VODs, clips, and published stream schedules — pick a mode, paste your targets.
• 📇 Socials + contact emails, built in. Every channel row includes the streamer's linked socials (YouTube, Instagram, X, TikTok, Discord…), their own website, and any business email parsed from their bio and channel panels — no separate "leads" actor needed.
• 🔍 Real lead-gen filters. Narrow discovery by follower band (min/max), live viewer band, broadcaster language, "has email", or "has socials" — find the exact tier of streamer you want to reach.
• 🌐 Keyless GraphQL, no browser. Talks to gql.twitch.tv the way the Twitch web app does — fast, light (runs at 256 MB), and reliable. No Playwright, no login, no cookies.
• 📈 Deeper directory coverage. Game and top-stream directories fan out over sort and language partitions and dedupe broadcasters, pulling well past the 30-result ceiling most competitors admit to.
• 📥 Flexible input. Usernames, @handles, full channel URLs, /directory/category/… links, game names or slugs, video and clip URLs — all auto-detected and merged.

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Overview

Twitch Scraper extracts public data from twitch.tv via Twitch's own GraphQL endpoint. It's built for marketers building creator/influencer lists, agencies sourcing sponsorship prospects, analysts tracking category viewership, and developers who need Twitch data without touching the rate-limited official Helix API or standing up a browser farm.

Each run produces one row per result, with a _type field (channel, stream, game, video, clip, or schedule) so mixed-mode datasets stay filterable. Channel rows are the richest — a full profile plus socials, website, and emails. Stream rows embed the broadcaster's profile so a directory sweep doubles as a lead list.

The scraper is HTTP-only (impit + a global sliding-window concurrency model). Twitch's public client ID is embedded at build time and self-heals — if Twitch rotates it, the actor re-extracts the current one from twitch.tv and retries, with no redeploy needed.

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Pricing

Event	When	Price
Actor start	Once per run (per GB of memory, 256 MB default)	$0.005
Result	Each row: channel, stream, game, video, clip or schedule entry	$0.002
Contact email	Each email found by the opt-in website lookup (enrichEmails); emails in the bio and panels are included in the row price	$0.05

Example: 1,000 streamer profiles with socials and bio emails cost $2.00.

Supported Inputs

You can target Twitch four ways, mixed freely in one run:

Input field	Accepts	Example
channelUsernames	usernames, @handles, or channel URLs	shroud, @pokimane, https://www.twitch.tv/caseoh_
gameNames	game/category names, slugs, or directory URLs	Fortnite, just-chatting, https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/valorant
searchQueries	free-text keywords (searchChannels mode)	chess, speedrun, cooking
startUrls	any twitch.tv URL — channel, directory, video, or clip	https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2820701541

Copy-pasteable start example:

{
  "mode": "channels",
  "channelUsernames": ["shroud", "@pokimane", "https://www.twitch.tv/caseoh_"]
}

Not supported: private/subscriber-only data, live chat messages, whispers/DMs, follower lists (Twitch gates these behind an integrity token), watch-time or revenue analytics, and anything requiring a logged-in session. See the FAQ.

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Use Cases

Audience	What they pull
Influencer marketing	Streamer shortlists filtered by follower band + language, with socials and contact emails for outreach
Sponsorship agencies	Live-in-category prospect lists (who's streaming your game right now, at what audience size)
Market research	Category viewership, top-games directory, streamer counts over time
Brand monitoring	Track a set of channels — live status, current game, last broadcast, schedule
Content / clips teams	Top clips by game or channel for a chosen period; VOD catalogs
Data / dev teams	Clean Twitch data feed without the Helix API's OAuth + rate limits

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How It Works

1. You provide targets — usernames, game names, search terms, or twitch.tv URLs — and pick a mode.
2. The actor classifies each target (user vs game vs video vs clip) and merges everything into one work list.
3. It queries Twitch's public GraphQL API — batching channel lookups (35 per request), fanning directory sweeps across sort/language partitions, and paginating search and video/clip lists.
4. It enriches channel rows — parsing socials and bio/panel emails, and (optionally) visiting the streamer's own website for a business email.
5. It applies your filters (followers, viewers, language, has-email, has-socials) and pushes one clean row per result to the dataset — export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

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Input Configuration

Only fields that exist in the actor are listed.

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	channels, searchChannels, gameStreams, topStreams, topGames, videos, clips, schedule. Default channels.
channelUsernames	array	Usernames, @handles, or channel URLs (channels/videos/clips/schedule).
gameNames	array	Game/category names, slugs, or directory URLs (gameStreams/clips).
searchQueries	array	Keywords for searchChannels mode; paginates far past the first page.
startUrls	array	Any twitch.tv URLs — auto-detected and merged with the above.
maxItems	integer	Stop after this many dataset rows. Default 100.
languages	array	Two-letter broadcaster language codes, e.g. ["EN","DE"].
minFollowers / maxFollowers	integer	Keep only channels/streams inside this follower band.
minViewers / maxViewers	integer	Stream modes: keep streams inside this live-viewer band.
onlyWithEmail	boolean	Keep only rows that surfaced a contact email.
onlyWithSocials	boolean	Keep only rows with at least one social/website link.
includePanels	boolean	Fetch channel panels for extra links/emails. Default true.
includeVideos	boolean	Attach a recentVideos list to channel rows.
includeClips	boolean	Attach a topClips list to channel rows.
maxVideosPerChannel	integer	Cap for videos mode and nested VOD lists. Default 30.
maxClipsPerChannel	integer	Cap for clips mode and nested clip lists. Default 30.
videoType	select	ALL, ARCHIVE (past broadcasts), HIGHLIGHT, UPLOAD.
videoSort	select	TIME or VIEWS.
clipPeriod	select	LAST_DAY, LAST_WEEK, LAST_MONTH, ALL_TIME.
clipSort	select	VIEWS_DESC, CREATED_AT_DESC, TRENDING.
enrichEmails	boolean	Opt-in, free: crawl the streamer's own website for a business email.
maxConcurrency	integer	Parallel requests against Twitch. Default 10.
proxy	object	Optional. Twitch usually works with no proxy; add one only for rate-limiting.

Example — find mid-tier English Fortnite streamers with an email, for outreach:

{
  "mode": "gameStreams",
  "gameNames": ["Fortnite"],
  "languages": ["EN"],
  "minFollowers": 5000,
  "maxFollowers": 200000,
  "onlyWithEmail": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Example — discover channels by keyword, with contact enrichment:

{
  "mode": "searchChannels",
  "searchQueries": ["chess", "speedrun"],
  "enrichEmails": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

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Output Overview

One row per result. The _type field tells you the shape. A channel row is a full streamer profile: identity, follower count, partner/affiliate flags, live status and current stream, last broadcast, total VOD count, socials, website, and any emails found in the bio/panels. stream rows embed the broadcaster's profile (so directory sweeps double as lead lists); game, video, clip, and schedule rows carry their own natural fields.

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Output Samples

Channel row (from mode: channels, username pokimane, trimmed):

{
  "_type": "channel",
  "channelId": "44445592",
  "username": "pokimane",
  "displayName": "pokimane",
  "url": "https://www.twitch.tv/pokimane",
  "bio": "hi ♡ i stream sometimes 📧 Business inquiries: teampokimane@wmeagency.com",
  "followersCount": 9460991,
  "isPartner": true,
  "isAffiliate": false,
  "language": "EN",
  "isLive": false,
  "currentStream": null,
  "lastBroadcast": { "title": "see you soon!", "game": "Just Chatting", "startedAt": "2026-07-14T22:00:40Z" },
  "totalVideos": 568,
  "socials": [
    { "platform": "instagram", "url": "https://www.instagram.com/imane", "title": "Instagram" },
    { "platform": "youtube", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/pokimane", "title": "YouTube" },
    { "platform": "tiktok", "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@poki", "title": "TikTok" }
  ],
  "website": null,
  "bioEmail": "teampokimane@wmeagency.com",
  "allEmails": ["teampokimane@wmeagency.com"]
}

Stream row (from mode: gameStreams, trimmed):

{
  "_type": "stream",
  "streamId": "320501021019",
  "title": "DROPS ON! ranked grind",
  "viewersCount": 633,
  "language": "EN",
  "game": "Fortnite",
  "tags": ["English", "Controller"],
  "username": "swearin",
  "displayName": "swearin",
  "url": "https://www.twitch.tv/swearin",
  "followersCount": 63489,
  "isPartner": true,
  "bioEmail": "swearin@dulcedo.com",
  "socials": [{ "platform": "twitter", "url": "https://twitter.com/swearin", "title": "Twitter" }]
}

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Key Output Fields

Identity — channelId, username, displayName, url, bio, accountCreatedAt, profileImageUrl, bannerImageUrl. Audience & status — followersCount, isPartner, isAffiliate, isLive, language, team, totalVideos. Live / recent — currentStream (title, game, viewers, startedAt, tags), lastBroadcast (title, game, startedAt). Lead-gen — socials[] (platform + url), website, bioEmail, allEmails[], plus contactEmail / contactWebsite / emailEnrichment when enrichEmails is on. Stream rows — streamId, viewersCount, startedAt, tags[], thumbnailUrl, game, gameId + the embedded broadcaster profile. Game rows — name, slug, viewersCount, followersCount, broadcastersCount, boxArtUrl. Video rows — videoId, title, viewCount, lengthSeconds, publishedAt, type, game, url. Clip rows — clipId, slug, title, viewCount, durationSeconds, createdAt, game, curator, url. Schedule rows — segmentId, title, startAt, endAt, categories[].

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FAQ

Which URLs and inputs are supported? Channel usernames/@handles/URLs, game names/slugs/directory URLs, search keywords, and video/clip URLs — see Supported Inputs. Everything is auto-classified.

Do I need a Twitch API key or login? No. The actor uses Twitch's public web GraphQL endpoint. No OAuth, no cookies, no key.

Can it get streamer contact emails? Yes, when the streamer publishes one. Emails are parsed from the channel bio and panels. Turn on enrichEmails to also visit the streamer's own linked website and scan its contact/about pages. Emails that aren't published anywhere public can't be found.

Can it scrape live chat, whispers, or a channel's full follower list? No. Live chat, whispers, and follower/following lists are either private or gated behind Twitch's integrity token and are out of scope. The actor covers public profile, directory, video, clip, and schedule data.

Why are some directory results capped? Twitch integrity-gates deep after pagination on live-stream directories. The actor works around this by sweeping multiple sort orders and languages and deduping broadcasters — giving materially more coverage than a single 30-result page — but a single game's live streams are still bounded by what Twitch exposes keylessly.

Is schedule data always present? Only when the streamer has published a schedule. Channels without one return no schedule rows (logged, not an error).

Do I need a proxy? Usually not — Twitch's public API accepts direct connections. Add a proxy only if you hit rate-limiting on a shared IP.

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Support

Found a bug or need a field that isn't captured? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab on the Apify Store, and it'll be looked at promptly. Include your input JSON and, where relevant, an example Twitch URL so the case can be reproduced.

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Additional Services

Need a tailored export (a specific schema, a scheduled daily creator feed, a bundled multi-platform dataset), or a custom Twitch workflow? Custom scraping and enrichment work is available on request — reach out through the Issues tab or the developer profile.

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Explore More Scrapers

This actor is part of a broader portfolio of directory, social, and lead-generation scrapers on the Apify Store. Browse the developer's other actors — job boards, real-estate portals, review sites, and social platforms — from the profile page linked on the actor listing.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Twitch Interactive, Inc. or Amazon.com, Inc. "Twitch" and all related names, marks, and logos are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here only to describe the actor's function.

The actor scrapes publicly available data only — information any visitor can see on twitch.tv without logging in. It does not access private, subscriber-only, or authenticated content, and it does not bypass access controls. You are responsible for using it in compliance with Twitch's Terms of Service, applicable laws, and data-protection regulations including GDPR and CCPA. Personal data (such as contact emails published by creators) must be processed on a lawful basis and only for legitimate purposes. Use responsibly.

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