Twitch Developer Documentation

Welcome to the Twitch developer documentation site. Here you’ll find the information needed to develop third-party experiences with Twitch.

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Authentication

Get the access tokens and scopes your application needs to call the API.

Twitch API

Learn about Twitch's latest API features and services to get you started.

EventSub

Create EventSub subscriptions for your application so it can listen for events that happen on Twitch.

Chat & Chatbots

Read and send chat messages over IRC, EventSub and the Twitch API.

Extensions

Build new experiences that enhance how viewers interact with streamers in real time.

Drops

Reward viewers with in-game items for watching your game on Twitch.

Embeds

Build out interactive experiences by bringing Twitch streams to new surfaces.

Twitch CLI

Mock the API and fire test EventSub events from your terminal.

Latest Changes

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Updated the EventSub type Channel Chat Notification (channel.chat.notification) to include the gifted_drops_summary and shared_chat_gifted_drops_summary notice types.

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