Twitch · measured, not estimated
Who is being watched
on Twitch.
The hundred most-watched channels on Twitch over the last thirty days, by average concurrent viewers, with hours streamed and watched, peak, followers and views — read from TwitchTracker’s public ranking, and the same people’s proven YouTube and Kick accounts beside them. Where this site’s server holds a Twitch credential, the top five hundred channels live this minute lead the page instead, with who gained the most and who is growing fastest from a small base.
The live board waits for a Twitch credential on this site’s server; the thirty-day ranking below needs none.
Set up · administrator
Two strings and it runs.
Twitch — dev.twitch.tv/console/apps
→ Register Your Application. Any name, any redirect (this is a
server-to-server flow and never uses one), category “Application
Integration”. Copy the Client ID and generate a Client Secret.
Free, no review.
YouTube, optional — enable the Data API v3
on a project, then Credentials → API key. Free, ten thousand
units a day.
Written to streamers-token.php on the server, mode 600, and
never sent back to any page. The archive excludes it.
The hundred
Who is watched over a month.
This one needs no credential. The hundred most-watched channels on Twitch by average concurrent audience across a thirty day window — which is an average, not a live count, and is a different question from the live board's. Hours streamed and hours watched cover the same window; peak, followers and views are lifetime figures.
| # | Channel | Avg viewers | Hrs streamed | Peak | Hours watched | Followers | Views |
|---|
Reading the ranking…
The platforms
What each one is carrying.
Every figure on this row is computed from the channels this desk can actually see: the live five hundred on Twitch, counted at the moment you loaded the page. Where a platform publishes no live ranking, the card says so instead of guessing.
The watchlist
On, or not on.
A named set, drawn whether or not they are broadcasting. Twitch answers for the ones who are; the “last seen” on the ones who are not is this desk’s own memory of its snapshots, because no platform publishes it.
The live hundred
Ranked by who is watching.
| # | Channel | Category | Lang | Watching | Change |
|---|
The movers
Three ways to be the biggest.
A mover is the difference between two readings this desk took itself, and both readings are still on disk. Pick the window; the panel says how far apart the two it actually used were, never the distance you asked for.
Momentum
The small ones going up.
The largest gains as a SHARE of where a channel started, which is the only way a room of four hundred shows up beside a room of forty thousand. There is a floor under it, and the floor is stated: a channel going from eight viewers to eighty is a thousand per cent and means nothing.
Method
What is measured, and what is not.
This page ranks Twitch channels two ways. The table that loads without a Twitch credential is the hundred most-watched channels over the last thirty days, by average concurrent viewers, read from TwitchTracker’s public channel ranking: an average, not a live count, with hours streamed and hours watched for the same window and peak, followers and views as lifetime figures. Find a channel by name. The live ranking, the top 500 channels broadcasting now with the viewer count Twitch publishes through its Get Streams API, loads only where this site’s relay holds a Twitch credential, and without one the page says so. Where it runs, the relay files the top 200 at each reading and keeps fourteen days of them, for the biggest movers and the fastest-growing small channels. Kick is not included.
Twitch is live and it is theirs
Get Streams returns every channel broadcasting right now with the platform’s own concurrent viewer count. Five pages of a hundred is the top five hundred. Nothing here is modelled, smoothed or estimated: it is the number Twitch publishes, read through a relay that holds the credential so your browser never does.
YouTube is scale, not a live ranking
The Data API publishes per-channel statistics — subscribers, lifetime views, uploads — and a most-popular chart. It does not publish “the channels with the most people watching right now”, so this desk does not draw one. What YouTube contributes is size, and it is labelled as size.
Kick is absent on purpose
Its v2 endpoints are reverse-engineered rather than published. A property built on an undocumented internal endpoint is a property that starts lying the day it changes, quietly. If the official API earns a place it will arrive the way these did: with a credential and a name on it.
The history is this desk’s own
A snapshot of the top two hundred is filed every time the relay is asked for one, and kept for fourteen days. Every change, every mover and every momentum figure is the difference between two of those files. That is why this page is thin the day it is installed and better a week later — it is measuring, not remembering.
The other platforms
The same people, elsewhere.
Where each of the hundred also has a YouTube or a Kick account. A matching handle is not proof of identity —
youtube.com/@xQcis a channel called Flasher CS2 with 53 subscribers, and@Nixis a different Nix with 30. Only accounts carrying YouTube’s own verification badge are counted here. Everything else is withheld and shown as unresolved rather than guessed at.Reading the file…