# Twitch Scraper: Channels, Streams, Clips & VODs (`scrapemint/twitch-scraper`) Actor

Twitch channels with followers, partner status, live state and social links; live streams by category and language with viewers; top clips and past broadcasts of any channel; the top 100 categories. By name, search or category. $0.001 per row.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapemint/twitch-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ken M](https://apify.com/scrapemint) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 rows

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Twitch Scraper: Channels, Streams, Clips & VODs

Data from **Twitch** in five modes, with no login:

- **Channels:** profile, **followers**, partner or affiliate, created date, **live now** (title, viewers, category), last broadcast, and **social links** (X/Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Discord...) from the channel's About panels. By channel name, by **keyword search**, or **everyone live in a category**.
- **Live streams:** title, **viewers**, category, language, start time, tags, the streamer's followers. In any category or site-wide, filtered by language.
- **Clips:** most-viewed clips of a channel or category in the last day, week, month or all time, with views, duration, curator and link.
- **Videos:** past broadcasts, highlights or uploads of a channel, with views, length and date.
- **Top categories:** the 100 most watched categories with viewers, live channels and followers.

No Twitch account, no API key, no proxy. $0.001 per row, no start fee.

### What you get

Channel: `login`, `displayName`, `url`, `description`, `followers`, `isPartner`, `isAffiliate`, `createdAt`, `profileImageUrl`, `isLive`, `liveTitle`, `liveViewers`, `liveCategory`, `liveStartedAt`, `lastBroadcastAt`, `lastBroadcastTitle`, `lastBroadcastCategory`, `socials` (twitter, instagram, youtube, tiktok, discord, facebook, kick), `panelLinks`

Stream: `login`, `displayName`, `url`, `title`, `viewers`, `category`, `language`, `startedAt`, `tags`, `followers`, `isPartner`, `thumbnailUrl`

Clip: `clipId`, `url`, `title`, `views`, `durationSeconds`, `createdAt`, `language`, `broadcaster`, `curator`, `category`, `thumbnailUrl`

Video: `videoId`, `url`, `title`, `views`, `lengthSeconds`, `publishedAt`, `videoType`, `broadcaster`, `category`, `thumbnailUrl`

Category: `rank`, `categoryId`, `name`, `url`, `viewers`, `liveChannels`, `followers`, `tags`, `boxArtUrl`

### Example input

Profiles and socials of named channels, plus a keyword search:

```json
{
  "mode": "channels",
  "channels": ["shroud", "https://www.twitch.tv/pokimane"],
  "searchQueries": ["valorant"]
}
```

Streamers live in Fortnite right now, French and English, with 1,000+ followers:

```json
{
  "mode": "channels",
  "categories": ["Fortnite"],
  "languages": ["fr", "en"],
  "minFollowers": 1000
}
```

Top clips of the month in Minecraft:

```json
{
  "mode": "clips",
  "categories": ["Minecraft"],
  "clipPeriod": "month"
}
```

### Example output

```json
{
  "type": "channel",
  "login": "shroud",
  "displayName": "shroud",
  "url": "https://www.twitch.tv/shroud",
  "followers": 11296039,
  "isPartner": true,
  "createdAt": "2012-11-03T15:50:32.87847Z",
  "isLive": true,
  "liveTitle": "DOES SAMOSA START TODAY??",
  "liveViewers": 8230,
  "liveCategory": "AION 2",
  "socials": {
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/shroud",
    "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/shroud/",
    "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/shroud"
  }
}
```

### Uses

- **Influencer marketing:** streamers in your game or niche, with followers, live audience, partner status and social links
- **Esports and publishers:** who is streaming your title right now, in which languages, to how many viewers
- **Content teams:** the most-viewed clips of a game or creator to feature or analyse
- **Market research:** category popularity with the top 100 by viewers, on a schedule

### Pricing

- **$0.001** per row (channel, stream, clip, video or category)
- No start fee. A run that finds nothing is free.

### Notes

- **How much per list:** Twitch serves one page per list to logged-out visitors. That is up to 100 clips, videos, channel search results or categories, and up to 30 live streams per sort order. Live streams and live channels read three orders (most viewers, fewest viewers, most recent) per language, which gives roughly 70-90 streams per category per language. Add languages for more.
- Social links come from the links a streamer puts in their About panels; channels without panel links have none.
- Category names must match Twitch's spelling (e.g. "League of Legends", "Just Chatting").

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Channels: by name, keyword search or who is live in a category. Live streams: in categories or site-wide. Clips: of channels or categories. Videos: of channels. Top categories: the 100 most watched.

## `channels` (type: `array`):

Channel names or URLs, e.g. shroud, twitch.tv/pokimane. Used by Channels, Clips and Videos.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Category names exactly as on Twitch, e.g. Fortnite, Just Chatting, Chess, League of Legends. Used by Channels (who is live there), Live streams and Clips.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Keywords for Twitch's channel search, e.g. valorant, cooking, asmr. Channels mode only; up to 100 channels each.

## `languages` (type: `array`):

Two-letter codes, e.g. en, es, de, fr, pt, ja. Filters live streams and live channels; each language is read separately, so more languages return more streams.

## `minFollowers` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Drops channels and streams with fewer followers.

## `clipPeriod` (type: `string`):

Most-viewed clips from this window.

## `videoType` (type: `string`):

Which videos to list for each channel.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop each channel list, category or search after this many rows. Twitch returns up to 100 clips, videos or categories and about 30-90 live streams per category and language.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "channels",
  "channels": [
    "shroud"
  ],
  "categories": [],
  "searchQueries": [],
  "languages": [],
  "clipPeriod": "week",
  "videoType": "archive",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `rows` (type: `string`):

Channels with followers, partner status, live state and socials; streams with viewers; clips and videos with views; categories with viewers.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Rows per source and any sources that failed.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "channels": [
        "shroud"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapemint/twitch-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "channels": ["shroud"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapemint/twitch-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "channels": [
    "shroud"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapemint/twitch-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapemint/twitch-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/pChMYGcrXValvgVPT/builds/Vo6cVhCWYEPc6rear/openapi.json