An R package to flirt with Twitch API

Rchamp is an R package to interact 😉 with the twitch API. This makes calls to the helix version and V5 version (depreciated) of the Twitch api.

But why ❓ , well...

If you love R & Twitch like I do, then this package saves you the effort of going 'off-platform' to another language to fetch the data and the headache of messy dense code when making calls to twich using httr. This package is not supported or affiliated with Twitch. By using it, you abide by their dev agreement.

Installation

---

Using devtools from CRAN, do it like this :smart:

devtools::install_github(mowgl-i/Rchamp)

O-auth

---

Thanks to Freguglia and Favstats. They've created a function twitch_auth() to leverage the new helix api from Twitch.

Make sure you have a valid client id and secret to access the api. Once you have it, you can leverage the twitch_auth() function which relies on the use_this package to edit the environment. Follow step by step below or see here for more info on Twitch Authentication from Freguglia and Favstats.

Step by step O-auth

---

1. In console

  
  usethis::edit_r_environ() 
  

2. Edit file:

TWITCH_CLIENT_ID=YOUR_CLIENT_ID 
TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET=YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET

3. Save and restart R

Wana know how to use it? Check out the vignette

This project would have been way harder without the following open-source masterminds. Ogulcan Celik - Genius idea of locating clip location via _next and comment time stamp. Freguglia and Favstats - The O-auth function to begin using the helix version of Twitch API.