Subscribe to Twitch EventSub webhook events for live stream and channel point redemption notifications

domain: dev.twitch.tv · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Obtain an app access token using the client credentials OAuth flow with the required scopes for the subscription types needed (e.g., channel:read:redemptions for channel point events)
  2. Register a publicly reachable HTTPS webhook callback URL that can respond to Twitch's challenge verification request with a 200 OK and the echoed challenge string
  3. Call the EventSub subscriptions endpoint (POST to the subscriptions resource) with the subscription type, version, condition (e.g., broadcaster_user_id), and transport object specifying method 'webhook' and the callback URL
  4. Twitch sends a verification challenge POST to the callback URL; respond within the required time window by returning the challenge value to confirm the subscription
  5. On receiving event notifications, verify the Twitch-Message-Signature header using the HMAC of the message ID, timestamp, and raw body with the subscription's secret to reject forged requests
  6. Handle duplicate deliveries by checking the Twitch-Message-Id header and deduplicating against recently processed IDs

Known gotchas

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