Add started_at for a stream object in /streams

[Eksrow]

There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to find out when a stream started, except by polling the API every X seconds for new streams and marking those down.

[night]

A lot of people want this, but it's not in kraken.

You can use the JTV API in the meantime (since it still accepts Twitch streams for some reason).

http://api.justin.tv/api/stream/list.json?channel=CHANNEL

Look for the up_time key.

[dustin-lennon]

Night, how would one grab that value using node.js?

or wouldn't using the updated_at in the /streams in kraken work as well?

[night]

updated_at lets you know when the stream object was last updated, not when the stream began.

As for grabbing that using node.js, a "request" module exists to make external http calls easier. Check out https://github.com/mikeal/request for info on that.

[dustin-lennon]

The issue I am having is that fact that up_time is nested in an empty key name and don't know how to retrieve the key because of it.

[night]

The issue I am having is that fact that up_time is nested in an empty key name and don't know how to retrieve the key because of it.

It's the first object in an array, so in Javascript that'd be

if(data.length > 0) {
    var stream = data[0];
    // stream.up_time
}

if you assigned data to the data returned by the API.

[FugiTech]

Other than an !uptime command, what would you use this data for?

[bashtech]

+1

[dustin-lennon]

+1

[thinkpad4]

+1

[CommanderRoot]

+1

[Farcrada]

For a "!highlight" command.

[Eksrow]

Is there an ETA for this?

[night]

Is there an ETA for this?

There is not an ETA, but for everything Twitch it's generally soon™ unless it's a major priority.

[amclay]

+1 fugi pls

[FugiTech]

+1 QA pls

[vav17]

Indeed, I think this is a really basic function that should be added!

[FugiTech]

As you can see by the referenced commit, created_at was added last year. Enjoy!

[vav17]

Oh I oversaw this, Sorry! okay so I have "created_at":"2015-08-09T17:21:14Z" so how is this formatted? Year-month-day-??-hour-minutes-seconds?-?? and what timezone is this based on or does either the T or the Z tell me this?
-vav17

[night]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

[vav17]

Thanks for the quick responces!