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Supercharge your YouTube live tools with the new Super Chat API
Thursday, January 12, 2017
In December 2015, we
launched an array of API services
that let developers access a wealth of data about live streams, chat, and fan funding. Since then, we’ve seen thousands of creators use the tools listed on our
Tools for Gaming Streamers page
to enhance their streams by adding chatbots, overlays, polls and more.
Today, we
announced
a new live feature for fans and creators, Super Chat, which lets anybody watching a live stream stand out from the crowd and get a creator’s attention by purchasing highlighted chat messages. We’re also announcing a new API service for this feature: the
Super Chat API
, designed to allow developers to access real-time information about Super Chat purchases.
The launch of this new API service will be followed by the shutdown of our Fan Funding API. To that end, developers using the Fan Funding API need to move to the new Super Chat API as soon as possible.
On January 31, 2017
, we’ll begin offering replacements for the two ways developers currently get information about Fan Funding:
LiveChatMessages.list
will gain a new message type,
superChatMessage
, which will contain details about Super Chats purchased during an active live stream
A new endpoint,
SuperChats.list
, will be made available to list a channel’s Super Chat purchases
On February 28, 2017
, we’ll be turning down the two existing Fan Funding methods:
LiveChatMessages.list will no longer return messages of type
fanFundingEvent
FanFundingEvents.list will no longer return data
During the transition period between Super Chats and Fan Funding,
SuperChats.list
will provide information about
both
Super Chat events
and
Fan Funding events, so we encourage all developers to switch to the new API as soon as it becomes available. Keep your eye on the
YouTube Data API v3 Revision History
to get the documentation for this service as soon as we post it.
If you’ve got questions on this, please feel free to ask the community on our
Stack Overflow tag
or send us a tweet at @YouTubeDev and we’ll do our best to answer.
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