Monitor Which Kick Streamers Are Live Right Now

'Who's live' is a list question — answer it in one run. Thirdwatch's Kick Scraper pulls Kick channels, past streams, and clips through the platform's public API — followers, live status, views, durations, and playback URLs.

Skip the setup: Run this as a ready-to-go task on Apify — pre-loaded with the configuration from this guide.

Why monitor live status

A who's-live monitor over a streamer list means checking each channel — trivially automatable once the status is a row.

Multiple slugs in channels return a profile row each; isLive is the flag, liveViewers the current audience.

The scraper hits Kick's public API surface, so a channel slug in means profile, VODs, and clips as rows — no browser needed.

How does this compare to the alternatives?

Why this Actor

• Channel profile rows: followers, live status, current stream title and viewers.
• VOD rows with playback URLs and thumbnails.
• Clip rows with view counts and durations.
• Multiple channels per run for comparison or monitoring.
• Public API path — no auth, no browser.

How to do it in 3 steps

Step 1: Configure the input

Set the inputs as shown below — channels takes the targets, channel slugs; includeVideos and includeClips toggle the VOD and clip pulls per channel.

Step 2: Run the Actor

Run it from the console, the API, or the linked saved task. One dataset row is written per channel or video.

Step 3: Use the output

Channel rows carry followers, live status and current stream info; video rows carry title, views, duration, thumbnail and playback URL.

{
  "channels": [
    "xqc",
    "trainwreckstv"
  ]
}

Each dataset row looks like:

{
  "type": "channel",
  "slug": "xqc",
  "userId": "12345",
  "followersCount": 1200000,
  "isLive": true,
  "liveTitle": "SLOTS THEN REACT",
  "liveViewers": 45000,
  "url": "https://kick.com/xqc"
}

What to watch for

Kick's public API is undocumented — field availability can shift over time. Viewer counts are point-in-time at scrape.

Related use cases

• Snapshot a Kick Channel's Profile and Live Status
• Pull a Kick Channel's Past Streams (VODs)
• Discover a Kick Channel's Top Clips
• Compare Several Kick Streamers in One Run
• All Thirdwatch use-case guides

Run the Kick Scraper on Apify Store — pay per result, free to try, no credit card to test.