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Twitch

Twitch is a live streaming platform for gamers, content creators, and communities.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Twitch the way a machine reads it — 76 machine-readable artifacts across 43 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Twitch scores 57.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 57.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 7.9 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Twitch

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Twitch. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 43

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Twitch EventSub

EventSub is Twitch's webhook-based subscription service for receiving real-time notifications about events on Twitch.

Twitch Chat API

IRC and WebSocket-based APIs for integrating with Twitch chat.

Twitch Embed API

APIs for embedding Twitch live streams, video on demand, clips, and chat into external websites.

Twitch Ads API

Manage and start commercial ad breaks

Twitch Analytics API

Retrieve Drops analytics

Twitch Bits API

Retrieve Bits leaderboard and Cheermote information

Twitch Channel Points API

Manage custom channel point rewards and redemptions

Twitch Channels API

Manage channel information and editors

Twitch Characters API

Game character data

Twitch Charity API

Retrieve charity campaign information

Twitch Chat API

Manage chat settings, emotes, badges, and announcements

Twitch Clips API

Create and retrieve clips

Twitch Collections API

Game collections and franchises

Twitch Companies API

Game company data

Twitch Conduits API

Manage EventSub conduits and shards

Twitch Configuration API

Extension configuration service

Twitch Entitlements API

Manage Drops entitlements and fulfillment

Twitch EventSub API

Manage EventSub subscriptions

Twitch Extension Analytics API

Analytics data for extensions

Twitch Extensions API

Manage and query extension information

Twitch Game Analytics API

Analytics data for games

Twitch Games API

Retrieve game/category information

Twitch Genres API

Game genre data

Twitch Goals API

Retrieve creator goals

Twitch Hype Train API

Retrieve Hype Train events

Twitch Ingest API

Ingest server information for broadcasting

Twitch Media API

Screenshots, artwork, and videos

Twitch Moderation API

Manage channel moderation including bans, blocks, and AutoMod

Twitch Platforms API

Gaming platform data

Twitch Polls API

Create and manage channel polls

Twitch Predictions API

Create and manage channel predictions

Twitch Pubsub API

Extension PubSub messaging

Twitch Raids API

Start and cancel raids

Twitch Schedule API

Manage channel stream schedules

Twitch Search API

Search for channels and categories

Twitch Streams API

Retrieve stream information and markers

Twitch Subscriptions API

Retrieve subscription information

Twitch Teams API

Retrieve team information

Twitch Themes API

Game theme data

Twitch Transactions API

Extension Bits transactions

Twitch Users API

Manage user information and blocks

Twitch Videos API

Manage and retrieve videos

Twitch Whispers API

Send whisper messages

Scroll within the panel for all 43 ·

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Twitch Drops API

OPEN COLLECTION

Twitch Extensions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Twitch Helix API

OPEN COLLECTION

Twitch IGDB API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Twitch GraphQL

Twitch uses GraphQL internally for its web and mobile clients. While Twitch does not offer an officially supported public GraphQL API, the internal GQL endpoint at `https://gql....

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Twitch Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Twitch Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Twitch EventSub

EventSub is Twitch's event-driven subscription service for receiving real-time notifications about events on Twitch. Supports webhook, WebSocket, and conduit transport methods. ...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Twitch Context

0 classes · 11 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Twitch API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

Twitch API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Twitch API Rules

10 rules · 2 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Twitch Channel

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Twitch Clip

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Twitch Stream

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Twitch Subscription

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Twitch User

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Twitch Video

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Twitch Channel Structure

11 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Twitch Stream Structure

14 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Twitch User Structure

11 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 5

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Twitch Authentication

http/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Twitch Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Twitch Scopes

42 scopes · clientCredentials/authorizationCode

42 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Twitch Agentic Access

107 operations · 53 acting

107 operations · 53 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Twitch — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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