# Twitch Streamer & Channel Analytics (`zucchini_gopher_m2v/twitch-analytics-scraper`) Actor

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

- **URL**: https://apify.com/zucchini\_gopher\_m2v/twitch-analytics-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Faisal Ahdan naufal](https://apify.com/zucchini_gopher_m2v) (community)
- **Categories:** Videos, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $7.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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:**

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

**Top live streams:**

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

**Top streams in a game:**

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

**Channel trending rank:**

```json
{ "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:

```json
{
  "_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:

```json
{
  "_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:**

```json
{
  "_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.

# Actor input Schema

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

"top-games" lists trending games/categories by viewer count. "top-streams" lists the platform-wide top live streams. "game-streams" lists the top live channels within a specific game/category. "channel-rank" checks whether specific channel(s) are currently trending, with their approximate rank platform-wide and within their category.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

"top-games"/"top-streams"/"game-streams" mode -- how many results to return. Twitch enforces a hard per-page ceiling for HTTP-only clients (30 for streams, 100 for games) -- see README for why deeper pagination isn't available.

## `gameName` (type: `string`):

"game-streams" mode -- the exact game/category name as it appears on Twitch (e.g. "Just Chatting", "League of Legends").

## `gameNames` (type: `array`):

"game-streams" mode only -- multiple game/category names to fetch in one run.

## `login` (type: `string`):

"channel-rank" mode -- a single Twitch channel login to check.

## `logins` (type: `array`):

"channel-rank" mode only -- multiple channel logins to check in one run.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

"game-streams"/"channel-rank" mode -- how many games/channels to process in parallel.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy configuration. Residential is on by default.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "top-games",
  "limit": 30,
  "gameName": "Just Chatting",
  "login": "shroud",
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped top-games / top-streams / game-streams / channel-rank records produced by this run.

# 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 = {
    "mode": "top-games",
    "limit": 30,
    "gameName": "Just Chatting",
    "login": "shroud",
    "maxConcurrency": 4,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("zucchini_gopher_m2v/twitch-analytics-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 = {
    "mode": "top-games",
    "limit": 30,
    "gameName": "Just Chatting",
    "login": "shroud",
    "maxConcurrency": 4,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("zucchini_gopher_m2v/twitch-analytics-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 '{
  "mode": "top-games",
  "limit": 30,
  "gameName": "Just Chatting",
  "login": "shroud",
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call zucchini_gopher_m2v/twitch-analytics-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,zucchini_gopher_m2v/twitch-analytics-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/IQzaJ7ISBaEvv2VxY/builds/ngcvGMT87v9tbVNkn/openapi.json