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Idea: Programming live streams

Hello everyone!

UPDATE: Link is here: https://www.twitch.tv/twobrainy

I'm sat here on a a rainy sunday in the UK, thinking about doing some coding, and I've got an itch to watch a programming live stream.

It occurred to me there's not a great way to just pull one up, you have to trawl Twitch and Youtube.com for a good one.

So I've had a look at at the Youtube Data API docs, and the Twitch search docs, and I think I can build an API that queries both of those services and returns streams which are:

  • hopefully about programming using search filters
  • currently broadcasting right now

I'll build it on the API on google cloud platform with serverless (since I need Youtube API keys anyway), and then host a simple static page on netlify.

This is my Sunday project.

I might as well try and figure out how to stream it on Youtube too!

I'll put the youtube link up here when I've figured it out (it's here: https://www.twitch.tv/twobrainy)

on August 8, 2021