🟣 Twitch Live Streams Scraper

🚀 Pull the top Twitch live streams with viewers, games, and tags in seconds. No login required.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-27 · 📊 18 fields per stream · All live streams · By global rank or category

The Twitch Live Streams Scraper pulls active streams from Twitch sorted by viewer count, either globally or for a specific game/category. It returns one record per live stream with full broadcaster, game, viewer, language, and tag metadata - all from public anonymous endpoints.

Coverage: every currently-live stream on twitch.tv. Optional filters by game slug (e.g. just-chatting, league-of-legends) and stream language. Up to 1,000,000 records per run on paid plans.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Streaming analytics	Track top streams by game/language
Sponsorship teams	Identify high-viewer creators in real time
Esports media	Monitor tournament-related live streams
Researchers	Study live-streaming engagement

📋 What the Twitch Live Streams Scraper does

• Queries the public Twitch GraphQL endpoint with the public anonymous Client-ID
• Returns one record per live stream with 18 normalized fields
• Optional filters: game slug, language
• Outputs to structured records via Apify dataset
• Auto-limits to 10 items on the free plan; up to 1,000,000 on paid

💡 Why it matters: Twitch's public API requires OAuth tokens and rate-limits aggressively. This Actor handles auth-free access via the same endpoint twitch.tv itself uses.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
gameSlug	string	Optional category slug, e.g. just-chatting
maxItems	integer	Cap on rows (free: 10)
language	enum	Optional 2-letter language code

{ "maxItems": 100 }

{ "gameSlug": "league-of-legends", "language": "en", "maxItems": 50 }

⚠️ Good to Know: Twitch's public GraphQL surface can change without notice. The Actor uses persisted-query-free fallback queries that match what the web app sends.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🖼 imageUrl	string	Stream preview image
📌 title	string	Stream title
🔗 url	string	twitch.tv/{login}
🆔 id	string	Stream ID
🎤 broadcasterLogin	string	Streamer login
🎤 broadcasterDisplayName	string	Streamer display name
🆔 broadcasterId	string	Broadcaster ID
🖼 broadcasterAvatar	string	Profile image URL
👀 viewersCount	number	Current viewers
🎮 game	string	Game / category name
🎮 gameSlug	string	Game slug
🖼 gameBoxArt	string	Box-art URL
🌐 language	string	Broadcast language
🏷 tags	array	Stream tags
📺 streamType	string	live / playlist
🕒 startedAt	string	Stream start ISO timestamp
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp
❌ error	string | null	Error message if extraction failed

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Direct Twitch GraphQL source, no third-party caching
• Real-time data, never stale
• Pay-per-result pricing; only charged for what you keep
• Works with Make, Zapier, n8n, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Sheets

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Maintenance	Coverage
Twitch Helix API + OAuth	Free (with token)	OAuth dance, rate limits	Official
Manual directory browsing	Free	Tedious	Visual only
This actor	Pay per result	None	Live + filters

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account w/ $5 credit
2. Open the Twitch Live Streams Scraper actor page
3. (Optional) Set gameSlug and language, set maxItems
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish
5. Retrieves the dataset as tabular / spreadsheet / structured / structured

💼 Business use cases

Sponsorship & marketing

Need	How this Actor helps
Find high-viewer streamers	Sort by viewersCount
Topic-specific creators	Filter by gameSlug

Esports & media

Need	How this Actor helps
Tournament monitoring	Pull live streams of the tournament game
Co-streamer detection	Match titles for tournament keywords

Analytics

Need	How this Actor helps
Hourly viewer snapshots	Schedule the Actor every hour
Language market share	Group by language

Research

Need	How this Actor helps
Live-streaming studies	Bulk pull over time windows
Category dynamics	Compare games hour-by-hour

🔌 Automating Twitch Live Streams Scraper

Schedule the Actor every 15 minutes, forward results to Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, or Google Drive. Push alerts when a streamer crosses a viewer threshold.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Academic studies of live-streaming behavior need clean snapshots. This Actor delivers them.

Personal

Build your own "Twitch radar" showing only languages you speak and games you follow.

Non-profit

Track charity streams and fundraiser categories.

Experimentation

Build a Discord bot that pings when a favourite streamer goes live in a specific category.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do I need a Twitch developer token? No. The Actor uses the same anonymous Client-ID twitch.tv itself uses.

Q: How fresh is the data? Live - every run hits Twitch directly.

Q: Can I get historical streams? No - only currently-live streams.

Q: Does it include subs / chat? No. This Actor returns the stream metadata that powers the Twitch directory.

Q: What's the rate limit? Anonymous GraphQL allows generous traffic; the Actor paces 250ms between pages.

Q: Can I filter to a single language? Yes - set language: "en" (or es, fr, de, etc.).

Q: How do I find the game slug? Open the category page on twitch.tv - slug is in the URL after /directory/category/.

Q: Can I scrape VODs / clips? Not in this Actor; this is for live streams only.

Q: Are tags localized? Tags are returned in their canonical English form.

Q: Why is viewersCount sometimes 0? Stream may have just gone live or the broadcaster has tags suppressing viewer counts.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Slack, Discord, Sheets, Airtable, BigQuery, S3, Snowflake, Zapier, Make, n8n, and 100+ more via Apify webhooks.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Twitch Interactive Inc. Only publicly available data is collected.