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Twitch Scraper

Extract live stream data, channel info, viewer counts, and game categories from Twitch. Built on spider-browser .

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target
twitch.tv
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

twitch-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.twitch.tv/directory");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const categories = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("[data-a-target*='card'], a[href*='/directory/category/'], article").forEach(el => {
    const name = el.querySelector("h2, h3, [data-a-target*='Name'], p")?.textContent?.trim();
    const viewerEl = el.querySelector("[aria-label*='viewer' i]");
    let viewers = viewerEl?.textContent?.trim();
    if (!viewers) {
      el.querySelectorAll("p, span").forEach(s => {
        const t = s.textContent?.trim();
        if (t && /viewer/i.test(t)) viewers = t;
      });
    }
    if (name) categories.push({ name, viewers });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: categories.length, categories: categories.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();
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Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Stream titleStreamerViewersGameTagsLanguageUptimeThumbnail
Metadata

Rich data extraction

Extract titles, view counts, and engagement metrics from twitch.tv.

Rendering

Dynamic content

Handle lazy-loaded comments, recommendations, and infinite scroll.

Scale

Channel-level scraping

Process entire channels and playlists with automatic pagination.

Related

More Media scrapers.

Start

Start scraping twitch.tv.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.