Helix Streams - Surprise Pagination!

[BarryCarlyon]

Brief description

The helix streams API is returning a pagination cursor in cases where it shouldn't.

Some example requests

https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/get-streams-repeatedly-returning-cursor-ia/23348

This one is a recurrence of a issue that has happened before.

How to reproduce

Call the streams helix endpoint specifying a single user_id or login

Call when live:

https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_login=cohhcarnage

https://api.twitch.tv/helix/streams?user_id=30661033

Returns a pagination

"pagination": {
"cursor": "IA"
}

Expected behavior

No pagination key to be present in the JSON output when pagination shouldn't occur

[mauerbac]

+1
Sometimes it returns an invalid cursor that is actually two cursors, space-concatenated, and base64-encoded a second time.

[mkwatson]

+1
what @mauerbac said!

[MrSpock78]

Is this the same issue?
https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/cursor-is-not-null-anymore-when-there-is-no-next-page/23372

[jbulava]

+1
Sometimes it returns an invalid cursor that is actually two cursors, space-concatenated, and base64-encoded a second time.

This is expected and is valid. The change in cursor is due to an internal infrastructure change, however passing in the full value of cursor should behave as usual.

We'll investigate if the IA cursor is expected with the infrastructure change.

[mauerbac]

HLX-1316

[lleadbet]

Closing the loop, we've addressed the IA issue on this endpoint. If you're continuing to see this, please feel free to reopen this issue.

If you continue to see other issues, please feel free to reopen an issue with more information.