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Twitch Social Scraper

Extract live stream data, channel profiles, viewer counts, and category rankings from Twitch. Powered by spider-browser .

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twitch.tv target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

twitch-social-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

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 streams = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("[data-a-target='card-0'], [data-a-target='card-1'], article").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector("[data-a-target='preview-card-title-link']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const streamer = el.querySelector("[data-a-target='preview-card-channel-link']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const viewers = el.querySelector("[data-a-target='preview-card-viewer-count']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const category = el.querySelector("[data-a-target='preview-card-game-link']")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) streams.push({ title, streamer, viewers, category });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: streams.length, streams: streams.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

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

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Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from twitch.tv with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

POST /fetch/twitch.tv/

Stream titleStreamerViewersCategoryTagsLanguage

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/twitch.tv/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/twitch.tv/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/twitch.tv/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction