Feature Request: Twitch login query for v3 GQL

[brian6932]

In v2 GQL, you could: Get a user by id, login or current authenticated user (@󠀀me).
Example:
https://old.7tv.app/users/brian6932 returns: https://old.7tv.app/users/60b04a7fad7fb4b50bd3a982

This is currently not possible with v3
https://7tv.app/users/brian6932 should return: https://7tv.app/users/60b04a7fad7fb4b50bd3a982

Problem being, this either generates unnecessary v2 REST requests, or forces people to use v2 GQL to query logins

[Nerixyz]

I think a REST endpoint should be included as well with similar functionality.

This would mean:

v3 REST

Either have the same endpoint as v2 (/users/{login}) but restricted to the login only, or an endpoint like /users/query that takes a object_id or login as query parameter.

v3 GQL

A query like

userByLogin(login: String!): User

that only takes the username - no user-id.

[AnatoleAM]

The REST endpoint for querying by a twitch connection should resemble something like /v3/users/twitch/{twitch-id}. (same with youtube, or other connection types)

I don't currently see a use for querying by login or username, aside from convenience for testing, there are no valid use cases that I'm aware of for implementations.

[Nerixyz]

I was thinking of Chatterino though I just noticed it uses the twitch-id, so that's not really an issue (=> would need a GQL query + REST endpoint for querying by connection-id).

For the webinterface it would be nice if you could go to a users profile by only knowing their name (when typing the URL) without going through user-search. Though query by connection-id is more important.

[starstormtwitch]

I believe I have this issue, the few docs there are specify an endpoint for querying id by username, but it doesnt seem to be working. I need this for a TwitchBot that a user configures with their username, and looks up all 7tv emotes to give the bot access to for their channel.

[brian6932]

@starstormtwitch You can't currently by login, but you can by uid

{userByConnection(id:"twitch_id"platform:TWITCH){emote_sets{emotes{data{name}name id}}}}

Replace twitch_id with the actual Twitch uid

[starstormtwitch]

Yeah but if I don't have a way to programmatically look up the UID the point is moot. Thanks though.

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[brian6932]

@starstormtwitch This isn't to say this solves the issue, it would be nice for 7TV v3 to have login based querying, but with that being said.
Getting a UID is very simple once you have a login, if you're doing this from Twitch chat, every privmsg has a user-id (the user sending the message's ID) and room-id (the creator of the channel's ID) tag. If not, you can either send the following GQL queries to https://gql.twitch.tv/gql (this requires a first party cid)

{user(login:"twitch_login"lookupType:ALL){id}}

or if you need batching (this requires a first party cid)

{users(logins:["twitch_login""twitch_login2"]){id}}

or make a request to Twitch's Helix API (this requires a token with third party token scopes) to the following endpoint https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users?login=twitch_login&login=twitch_login2
https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference/#get-users