Twitch Streamer & Channel Analytics

Trending games/categories, platform-wide top live streams, top channels within a category, and per-channel trending-rank lookup — no account or API key needed.

Why use this actor

• Market-level Twitch intelligence: what's trending right now, who's dominating a category, and where a specific streamer ranks
• Complements a single-channel profile lookup with genuinely different, cross-channel data
• No account, login, or API key required
• Automatic retries on temporary network hiccups
• Transparent about ranking accuracy — every ranked field is clearly labeled "approximate" because Twitch's own sort isn't perfectly ordered (see Known limits) — nothing is dressed up as more precise than it is

How it works

Pick a mode:

1. top-games — trending games/categories by current viewer count, with how many channels are streaming each.
2. top-streams — the platform-wide top live streams right now.
3. game-streams — the top live channels within one specific game/category.
4. channel-rank — checks whether specific channel(s) are currently live and trending, reporting their approximate position in the platform-wide top 30 and in their category's top 30.

Input

Top games:

{ "mode": "top-games", "limit": 20 }

Top live streams:

{ "mode": "top-streams", "limit": 30 }

Top streams in a game:

{ "mode": "game-streams", "gameName": "Just Chatting", "limit": 30 }

Channel trending rank:

{ "mode": "channel-rank", "logins": ["xqc", "shroud"] }

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	"top-games" (default), "top-streams", "game-streams", or "channel-rank".
limit	integer	Max results for top-games/top-streams/game-streams. Twitch caps this at 30 for streams, 100 for games (see Known limits).
gameName / gameNames	string / array	game-streams mode — exact game/category name(s) as shown on Twitch.
login / logins	string / array	channel-rank mode — channel login(s) to check.
maxConcurrency	integer	game-streams/channel-rank mode — how many items to process in parallel. Default 4.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. Residential is on by default.

Output

Top games mode — one record per game:

{
  "_input": "top-games",
  "_source": "S1-gql",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-25T20:07:18Z",
  "rankApprox": 4,
  "_approxSort": true,
  "gameId": "30921",
  "name": "Rocket League",
  "viewersCount": 126135,
  "broadcastersCount": 1174,
  "boxArtURL": "https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/ttv-boxart/30921-{width}x{height}.jpg"
}

Top streams / game streams mode — one record per live stream:

{
  "_input": "Just Chatting",
  "_source": "S1-gql",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-25T20:07:39Z",
  "rankApprox": 5,
  "_approxSort": true,
  "streamId": "317579103844",
  "title": "EN MODE MARDI PRIME",
  "viewersCount": 18547,
  "createdAt": "2026-08-25T19:43:29Z",
  "broadcasterLogin": "anyme023",
  "broadcasterDisplayName": "Anyme023",
  "gameName": "Just Chatting"
}

Channel rank mode:

{
  "_input": "xqc",
  "_source": "S1-gql",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-25T20:07:44Z",
  "login": "xqc",
  "displayName": "xQc",
  "isLive": true,
  "viewersCount": 30580,
  "gameName": "Special Events",
  "globalRankApprox": 7,
  "globalRankNote": "position 7 within the platform-wide top 30 live streams",
  "categoryRankApprox": 3,
  "categoryRankNote": "position 3 within the top 30 live streams in 'Special Events'"
}

An offline channel returns isLive: false with a note explaining that ranking only applies while live. A record with _error instead means that item couldn't be processed ("_error": "channel_not_found" or "_error": "game_not_found").

Known limits

• Ranks are approximate, not guaranteed-exact. Twitch's own VIEWER_COUNT sort was confirmed live to NOT be strictly monotonic — a fetched "sorted" page can have a low-viewer stream sandwiched between two much higher ones. Every ranked field is prefixed *Approx and stamped with _approxSort: true for exactly this reason. Treat rank as "roughly where this sits," not a precise leaderboard position.
• Only the top 30 (streams) or top 100 (games) are visible at all. Twitch blocks deeper pagination for HTTP-only clients (a device-integrity check that can't be satisfied without a real browser). A channel outside the top 30 in both its category and platform-wide returns null for both rank fields — that doesn't mean they have zero viewers, just that they're outside the visible window.
• No chat activity, follower-history/growth trends, or revenue estimates. These aren't available from any public, unauthenticated Twitch endpoint (the old anonymous chatters endpoint is confirmed dead) — this actor won't fabricate numbers third-party sites compute from their own private historical archives.