I thought the new Twitch API did not include live videos, but it does…

…. Luckily we can use thumbnail_url to filter them out. Annoying.

app.rb

@@ -1035,6 +1035,9 @@
   @data = response.json["data"]
   @alternate_url = Addressable::URI.parse("https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/#{game_name}").normalize.to_s
 
+  # live broadcasts show up here too, and the simplest way of filtering them out seems to be to see if thumbnail_url is populated or not
+  @data.reject! { |v| v["thumbnail_url"].empty? }
+
   @title = game_name
   @title += " highlights" if type == "highlight"
   @title += " on Twitch"
@@ -1057,6 +1060,9 @@
   user = @data[0]["user_name"] || CGI.unescape(user)
   @alternate_url = Addressable::URI.parse("https://www.twitch.tv/#{user.downcase}").normalize.to_s
 
+  # live broadcasts show up here too, and the simplest way of filtering them out seems to be to see if thumbnail_url is populated or not
+  @data.reject! { |v| v["thumbnail_url"].empty? }
+
   @title = user
   @title += "'s highlights" if type == "highlight"
   @title += " on Twitch"