Useful Custom APIs

Aaron128l · November 9, 2016, 7:27am

Copy and Paste this without changing anything
!count The follower count for this channel is $(customapi https://api.rtainc.co/twitch/channels/$(channel)/followers/count?format=[1]).

mye36m3 · November 10, 2016, 2:35am

Did it, and it still didn’t work

harleyalive · November 10, 2016, 11:00am

@mye36m3 You forgot to close the parenthesis for customapi.

Try this: The follower count for this channel is $(customapi https://api.rtainc.co/twitch/channels/$(channel)/followers/count?format=[1]).

Slikrick · November 10, 2016, 6:44pm

@mye36m3 Instead of saying that you have done it and it’s not working could you possibly provide a screenshot of what is going wrong or say what nightbot is returning when the command is run? Aaron’s command and HarleyAlive’s commands both work normally.

mye36m3 · November 11, 2016, 3:16am

Okay, thanks!

harleyalive · November 11, 2016, 7:50am

@mye36m3 Uh… What? That’s not it at all. Copy this directly:

!addcom !count The follower count for this channel is $(customapi https://api.rtainc.co/twitch/channels/$(channel)/followers/count?format=[1]).

mye36m3 · November 11, 2016, 3:17pm

Yeah, sorry I got the wrong one.

justin_hernandez10 · November 13, 2016, 5:18am

Can someone help me with this? I put in the new command but still doing something wrong.

Stoupedog · November 13, 2016, 5:47am

It looks like you missed out the /count before ?format. Also, you are using ?format=[2], which won’t return anything.

You can either use ?format=[1] which will just return the number of followers the channel has, or remove the ?format=[2] altogether which will return thegrizzlymuffin has x followers.

So either
https://api.rtainc.co/twitch/channels/thegrizzlymuffin/followers/count?format=[1]
or just
https://api.rtainc.co/twitch/channels/thegrizzlymuffin/followers/count

sir_chocolate · November 13, 2016, 1:57pm

Can someone help me by explaining what I’m doing wrong or just giving me a direct nightbot !addcom for the !howlong command as I keep getting invariable. I’ve tried multiple APIs from multiple sites with various implementation styles & don’t know if I’m prefacing it wrong or if the API’s bad but I’ve been at this Googling for hours & am tired of failing what I clearly don’t understand so I’m hear asking for you help.

!addcom !howlong $(touser) Has Been Following USERNAME On Twitch Since $(customapi http://api.newtimenow.com/follow-length/?channel=USERNAME&user=$(touser))

!addcom !howlong $(touser) Has Been Following CHANNEL On Twitch Since $(https://api.rtainc.co/twitch/followed-since?channel=CHANNEL&user=USERNAME&units=6)

!addcom !howlong $(touser) Has Been Following CHANNEL On Twitch Since $$(customapi https://apis.rtainc.co/twitchbot/following?channel=CHANNEL&user=$(USER))

Stoupedog · November 13, 2016, 2:09pm

!commands add !howlong $(urlfetch https://api.rtainc.co/twitch/channels/$(channel)/followers/$(touser)?format=[1]+has+been+following+[0]+for+[2])

Copy paste this into your chat, no need to change anything.

sir_chocolate · November 13, 2016, 3:06pm

Thanks. I don’t know if it worked as I’m still getting an invariable. My problem might just be that I can’t check it on m own profile since I can’t follow my own profile or check other profiles with it from my profile. I’ll just have to wait until one of my friends gets on. Which is good for now cause my brain is fried from all of this stuff being way above my level of understanding. I appreciate your help though Stoupedog. Thanks again

Stoupedog · November 13, 2016, 7:58pm

No problem, you can actually check other people’s followage by typing your command followed by the username of someone who’s following you, e.g. !howlong username

pixie026 · November 17, 2016, 9:35pm

https://api.rtainc.co/twitch/channels/CHANNEL/viewers/random?format=I+choose…+%5B0%5D doesnt pick a viewer :S comes back with i choose…

Stoupedog · November 19, 2016, 1:39pm

Make sure to replace the capitalized CHANNEL in the url with the name of the channel you want it to select the viewer from.

xxbonf1r3xx · November 22, 2016, 6:58pm

Is there a API to check if website is down?

justin_hernandez10 · November 26, 2016, 1:47am

How would it work if the website is down?

nexus71c · November 29, 2016, 8:58pm

In the 8ball command, is it possible to make it where a question mark is required for it to give a choice? Or perhaps a question word such as Is, Will, Can, etc. Just curious as it would make the command more restricted so there’s not much spam with the command

xxbonf1r3xx · December 6, 2016, 3:42pm

I meant like this.

With an API I could test if Steam is down or up for example via https://steamstat.us/ and bot would answer me like “Steam is down at the moment” for example.

Aaron128l · December 7, 2016, 10:46pm

If you don’t get a response or Nightbot cannot reach it then it’s safe to say the site is down or broken.