Get Top 100 Games by Number of Viewers Twitch

get_top_games_twitch.py

# Getting data for Top 100 Games by number of viewers
# Default response is for 20 games so you will have to set the parameter 'first to 100'

headers = {
    'Authorization' : 'Bearer '+str(access_token),
}
games_response = requests.get('https://api.twitch.tv/helix/games/top?first=100', headers=headers)

# The response will be a JSON which will include the response data and the pagination cursor
# We need to extract the data from the JSON and convert it into a pandas dataframe

games_response_json = json.loads(games_response.text)
topgames_data = games_response_json['data']

# Converting to a pandas dataframe
topgames_df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(json_normalize(topgames_data), orient='columns')

# See the first few lines. The response includes id, name, and box art url for the game
topgames_df.head()