mwalbeck/twitchlite

When using "only followed" combined with a specified game, pagination problems occur

crunchprank opened this issue · 1 comments

crunchprank commented

Environment
OS: CentOS 7
PHP: 7.3.13
Apache: 2.4.6

Issue
When you specify to use the only_followed_default option and search for a specific game, the results seem to sporadically be displayed across multiple pages. For example, the first page may have one or two streams, but then if you click Next, page two will have maybe three or four streams, etc.

Expected Behavior
When using only_followed_default, all streamers should show up as consolidated across the multiple pages as possible.

Reproduce

  • Clone the repository
  • Create a config.php file and add your valid oauth token and set only_followed_default to true.
  • Browse to the main index.php page
  • Search for a game (i.e. just use Dead by Daylight for an example)
  • Continue clicking "Next"

Additional Information

mwalbeck commented

Mhmm, I've tried to look into this and I couldn't replicate the exact setup you had, probably because I don't follow enough channels on my account to be able to show this effect. Though I have been able to reproduce a similar behaviour just in general.

It seems twitch has an issue with their API where generally smaller streams kind of just disappear from the api results. Your situation seems a bit extreme though, but I think it's definitely related.

It might be possible to partially work around this issue, by specifying the stream ids you want. So instead of getting followed streams, you supply a list of channel ids instead and get a list of the live channels in return. This should work with at least up to 100 channels, but I don't know if pagination works the same why as just getting followed streams. Though you can still search for a specific game.

Though I should also note that I'm not certain the above will work, but doing that way have fixed some issues other people were having with the twitch api.