Twitch Username Checker API

Category Social

Endpoints 2

Key Features 5

Frequently Asked Questions 1

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Product workflows

Embed domain checks, DNS intelligence, risk signals, or enrichment into onboarding, search, and internal tools.

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Replace repeated manual lookups with scheduled jobs, alerting, and reproducible investigation steps.

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Use predictable fields, documented status codes, and credit costs instead of scraping provider pages.

AI and ops tooling

Feed agents, dashboards, SOAR playbooks, and CRMs through OpenAPI, SDK, Postman, or MCP.

Integration workflow

A simple path from first request to repeatable production usage.

Authenticate once

Send your API key with the documented header and keep requests consistent across services.

Query with examples

Start from the curl and HTTP samples, then map the parameters into your application code.

Operate and monitor

Use status codes, credit costs, and response fields to build retries, logs, and alerts.

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Expose domain intelligence to AI agents and internal assistant workflows.

Parameters and response map

Scan the inputs, output fields, and status codes before wiring the endpoint into your client.

Request parameters

Parameter

handleplatforms

Response fields

Example Response

handleavailabilityavailability.twitchavailability.twitch.availableavailability.twitch.profile_urlavailability.twitch.checkedavailability.twitch.requestedavailability.twitch.methodavailability.twitch.confidenceavailability.twitch.latency_msavailability.twitch.evidencesummary

Status coverage

HTTP Status Codes

200400401402429500502503504

Endpoints

GET /v1/social

Credits: 2Authentication: Authentication required

handleplatforms

GET /v1/social/info

Credits: 0Authentication: optional

Social Handle Availability

Twitch

twitch

3-25 chars, alphanumeric and underscores

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=twitch https://www.twitch.tv/mybrand status=live method=public_profile confidence=medium

API

APIs

26 Endpoints

Check username availability across supported social media platforms.

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand GET /v1/social/info

KEY

Authentication

Credits

Include your API key in requests using the Authorization header:

X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

GitHub

github

1-39 chars, alphanumeric and hyphens, cannot start/end with hyphen

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=github

GitLab

gitlab

1-255 chars, letters, numbers, underscores, hyphens, and periods; cannot start with hyphen or end with period, .git, or .atom

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=gitlab

Bitbucket

bitbucket, bb

1-255 chars, letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=bitbucket

Dev.to

devto, dev.to

2-30 chars, letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=devto

Hugging Face

huggingface, hf

1-39 chars, alphanumeric and hyphens, cannot start/end with hyphen

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=huggingface

Dribbble

dribbble

1-40 chars, letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=dribbble

SoundCloud

soundcloud

1-40 chars, letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=soundcloud

Gumroad

gumroad

1-63 chars, letters, numbers, and hyphens; cannot start or end with a hyphen

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=gumroad

BMC

Buy Me a Coffee

buymeacoffee, bmc

1-40 chars, letters and numbers only

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=buymeacoffee

Substack

substack

1-63 chars, letters and numbers only

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=substack

itch.io

itchio, itch.io

1-30 chars, letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=itchio

Hacker News

hackernews, hn

1-20 chars, letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=hackernews

3-20 chars, alphanumeric, underscores, and hyphens

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=reddit

Bluesky

bluesky, bsky

3-253 chars, domain-style handle with letters, numbers, hyphens, and periods

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=bluesky

X / Twitter

x, twitter

1-15 chars, alphanumeric and underscores

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=twitter

Instagram

instagram, ig

1-30 chars, alphanumeric, underscores, and periods

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=instagram

Facebook

facebook, fb

4-50 chars, alphanumeric and periods

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=facebook

Threads

threads

1-30 chars, alphanumeric, underscores, and periods

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=threads

2-30 chars, alphanumeric, underscores, and periods

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=pinterest

Snapchat

snapchat, snap

3-15 chars, start with a letter, letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, and periods, end with a letter or number

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=snapchat

telegram, tg

3-32 chars, start with a letter, letters, numbers, single underscores only, no trailing underscore

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=telegram

Patreon

patreon

1-100 chars, letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=patreon

TikTok

tiktok

2-24 chars, alphanumeric, underscores, and periods

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=tiktok

YouTube

youtube, yt

3-30 chars, alphanumeric, underscores, periods, and hyphens

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=youtube

3-100 chars, alphanumeric and hyphens

GET /v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=linkedin

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Active Example Request

Start from the curl and HTTP samples, then map the parameters into your application code.

Key Features

Instant Results

Get availability status across all platforms in seconds.

Profile Links

Direct links to existing profiles for taken handles.

Summary Stats

Quick overview of available vs. taken platforms.

API Access

Integrate into your brand research workflow.

Combine with Domains

Check social handles alongside domain availability.

Example Request

GET /v1/social bash

curl -H "X-API-Key: $DOMSCAN_API_KEY" "https://domscan.net/v1/social?handle=mybrand&platforms=twitch"

Example Response

200 OK json

{
  "handle": "mybrand",
  "availability": {
    "twitch": {
      "available": false,
      "profile_url": "https://www.twitch.tv/mybrand",
      "checked": true,
      "requested": true,
      "method": "public_profile",
      "confidence": "medium",
      "latency_ms": 104,
      "evidence": { "source": "upstream" }
    }
  },
  "summary": {
    "available_count": 0,
    "unavailable_count": 1,
    "unknown_count": 0
  },
  "summary_v2": {
    "requested_count": 1,
    "checked_count": 1,
    "available_count": 0,
    "unavailable_count": 1,
    "unknown_count": 0,
    "not_supported_count": 0,
    "determinacy_rate": 1
  }
}

Frequently Asked Questions

Why should I check social handle availability?

Brand consistency matters. If your company is called "acme", ideally you want acme.com, @acme on social platforms, and /acme on GitHub. Checking early helps you pivot if needed.

Related Tools & Resources

HTTP Status Codes

We document the HTTP status codes you should handle so you can distinguish successful responses, auth issues, credits, rate limits, missing data, and upstream failures.

OK 200

Request successful

Bad Request 400

Invalid parameters

Unauthorized 401

Missing or invalid API key/session.

Payment Required 402

Not enough credits to run this request.

Too Many Requests 429

Rate limit exceeded

Server Error 500

Internal error

Bad Gateway 502

Upstream RDAP error

Service Unavailable 503

Upstream service unavailable or temporarily rate limited.

Gateway Timeout 504

Upstream lookup timed out.

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Twitch Username Checker API

Trust signals before you integrate

What this API helps you ship

Integration workflow

Developer kit

Parameters and response map

Endpoints

Social Handle Availability

Twitch

APIs

Authentication

GitHub

GitLab

Bitbucket

Dev.to

Hugging Face

Dribbble

SoundCloud

Gumroad

Buy Me a Coffee

Substack

itch.io

Hacker News

Reddit

Bluesky

X / Twitter

Instagram

Facebook

Threads

Pinterest

Snapchat

Telegram

Patreon

TikTok

YouTube

LinkedIn

Trust signals before you integrate

Key Features

Example Request

Example Response

Frequently Asked Questions

Related Tools & Resources

HTTP Status Codes