skmetaly/laravel-twitch-restful-api

Laravel twitch api

laravel-twitch-restful-api

Laravel Twittch restful api. An implementation of the twitch restful api V3 provided by Twitch.tv Documentation of the API can be found at Twitch restful api link, _(*1)

Installation

Require the package in composer.json :, _(*2)

"skmetaly/laravel-twitch-restful-api": "dev-master"

In config/app.php add providers, _(*3)

'Skmetaly\TwitchApi\Providers\TwitchApiServiceProvider'

In aliases, _(*4)

'TwitchApi'=>'Skmetaly\TwitchApi\Facades\TwitchApiServiceFacade'

Publish the config, _(*5)

php artisan vendor:publish --force

Create a twitch application ( in your twitch settings page, Connections tab ) Create a client secret Add both client secret, client id to the twitch-api.php config, _(*6)

Change the scopes that the application needs to better suit your needs, _(*7)

Usage

The api provides both non-authenticated and authenticated requests, _(*8)

Authentication

Twitch api uses OAuth 2.0 protocol for authentication., _(*9)

This API uses the Authorization Code Flow., _(*10)

First step for authenticating a user is to send him to the twitch authentication URL, _(*11)

php public function authenticate() { return Redirect::to(TwitchApi::authenticationURL()); } Keep in mind that the api uses the config set in twitch-api.redirect_url for redirecting after authentication, _(*12)

After the user accepted the scopes and authorised your app, it will be redirected at the value set in config('twitch-api.redirect_url'), _(*13)

A sample of handling the redirect :, _(*14)

```php public function redirect() { $code = Input::get('code');, <sub>(*15)</sub>

     $token = TwitchApi::requestToken($code);
 }

```, <sub>(*16)</sub>

You need to persist both the username and token associated with it to use all of the authenticated requests, <sub>(*17)</sub>