api

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API

Go web service that serves as a cache to APIs that each Chatterino client could use.

Routes

twitchemotes/set/:setID
Returns information about a given Twitch emote set. Example response:

{
    "channel_name": "forsen", // twitch user name
    "channel_id": "22484632", // twitch user id
    "type": "sub",            // string describing what type of emote set this is (e.g. "sub")
    "custom": false           // indicates whether this is added/modified by us or straight passthrough from the twitchemotes API
    "tier": 1,                // integer describing what tier the sub emote is part of
}

link_resolver/:url
Resolves a url into a preview tooltip. Example response:

{
    "status": 200,                                               // status code returned from the page
    "thumbnail": "http://api.url/thumbnail/web.com%2Fimage.png", // proxied thumbnail url if there's an image
    "message": "",                                               // used to forward errors in case the website e.g. couldn't load
    "tooltip": "<div>tooltip</div>",                             // HTML tooltip used in Chatterino
    "link": "http://final.url.com/asd"                           // final url, after any redirects
}

health/uptime
Returns API service's uptime. Example response:

928h2m53.795354922s

health/memory
Returns information about memory usage. Example response:

Alloc=505 MiB, TotalAlloc=17418866 MiB, Sys=3070 MiB, NumGC=111245

health/combined
Returns both uptime and information about memory usage. Example response:

Uptime: 928h5m7.937821282s - Memory: Alloc=510 MiB, TotalAlloc=17419213 MiB, Sys=3070 MiB, NumGC=111246

Using your self-hosted version

If you host your own version of this API, you can modify which url Chatterino2 uses to resolve links and to resolve twitch emote sets.
Change link resolver
Change Twitch emote resolver
How to build and host