Check the status of a twitch channel inside a mod?

[OCDiary]

Hi,

I want to perform a simple check on a twitch channel within my mod, all it needs to do is check if a twitch channel is online. I have tried some things I can think of but none even remotely worked and now I am completely stumped and dont know where to start. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

OC

[LexManos]

Why?

[OCDiary]

Hi LexManos,

Sorry its take some time been mental busy. I want to have the mod check if a channel is live and if so will perform said action in game. Thank you diesieben07 I had looked at that previously, but couldnt work out how to just simply check if the site was live without a clientID. What I want is something like this:

public static boolean checkIfOnline(String channel){
    String channerUrl = "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/" + channel;

    String jsonText = readFromUrl(channerUrl);// reads text from URL

    JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();
    JsonObject json = parser.parse(jsonText).getAsJsonObject();

    return !json.get("stream").isJsonNull();
}
private static String readFromUrl(String url) throws IOException {
    URL page = new URL(url);
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    Scanner scanner = null;
    try{
        scanner = new Scanner(page.openStream(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
        while (scanner.hasNextLine()){
            sb.append(scanner.nextLine());
        }
    }finally{
        if (scanner!=null)
            scanner.close();
    }
    return sb.toString();
}

Except that method no longer works. I would ideally just have a boolean that is true when the channel is live that I can then use elsewhere in the mod.

Thanks so much for your help

OC

[OCDiary]

Hey Diesieben07,

I had a funny feeling you would say that, I just didnt want to have to setup a redirect uri and everything. Shame it was so simple but now seems a lot more of a pain to do just a simple online check.

Thanks again

OC