List live broadcasts on Kick API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/kick/livestreams

Auth

apiKey

Credits

1 credit/request

Charged on

Successful 2xx responses only

Platform

Kick

Response schema

#/definitions/kick.livestreamsResponseDoc

How this endpoint behaves

Parameters (all optional):

• sort: viewer_count_desc (most viewers first, the default) or featured.
• language: a stream language code such as en, ja, es or pt-BR: 2 to 3 letters, optionally followed by a hyphen and a 2 to 4 letter region. Codes are case-insensitive on Kick's side. kick-languages lists the 67 languages Kick shows in its own language picker, but the live directory accepts a wider ISO-style range (for example af, sw, cy and xh are accepted although absent from that list), so this is not a closed set: Kick itself decides whether a code is recognized, and an unrecognized one such as zz returns 400.
• category_id: a category's numeric id, from kick-subcategories or kick-search-categories.
• limit: 1 to 100; defaults to 24.
• after: the previous response's next_cursor.

Notable response behavior:

• An unlisted sort, a malformed language (not letters, or not in the shape above), a limit outside 1 to 100, or a negative category_id returns 400 before Kick is called. A well-formed but unrecognized language returns 400 from Kick's own rejection.
• next_cursor is empty on the last page.
• viewers is the live viewer count at request time. started_at is RFC 3339 in UTC.
• An unknown category_id returns an empty list, not an error.

Example response (long values and lists shortened):

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "sort": "viewer_count_desc",
    "livestreams": [
      {
        "id": "01a17349-8728-74fa-972f-093056e74b43",
        "title": "【コレコレ】KICK闇ニュース！相談やSNSトラブル解決【ミラー、録画禁止】",
        "viewers": 93457,
        "started_at": "2026-10-25T13:39:21Z",
        "language": "ja",
        "mature": false,
        "category": {
          "id": 15,
          "name": "Just Chatting",
          "slug": "just-chatting"
        },
        "channel": {
          "id": 57035257,
          "slug": "korekore_ch",
          "username": "korekore_ch",
          "profile_picture": "https://files.kick.com/images/user/58166499/profile_image/conversion/e0edc160-d87e-40aa-b0e6-555b08583d3e-medi…",
          "url": "https://kick.com/korekore_ch"
        },
        "thumbnail_url": "https://images.kick.com/video_thumbnails/XFe3ftHjLy1x/kc6PlsgTUpf4/720.webp"
      },
      {
        "id": "01a171ff-7328-70a7-ba8d-576d11ad68c3",
        "title": "AURORA(1) vs G2(0) | BO3 | - PGL Masters Bucharest 2026",
        "viewers": 25670,
        "started_at": "2026-10-25T07:38:49Z",
        "language": "tr",
        "mature": false,
        "category": {
          "id": 1552,
          "name": "Counter-Strike 2",
          "slug": "counter-strike-2"
        },
        "channel": {
          "id": 61474127,
          "slug": "maj3r",
          "username": "MAJ3R",
          "profile_picture": "https://files.kick.com/images/user/62615924/profile_image/conversion/3fadc794-02c5-4d9b-9db0-b366fa461b98-medi…",
          "url": "https://kick.com/maj3r"
        },
        "thumbnail_url": "https://images.kick.com/video_thumbnails/roKOC4RFmGCH/fg0SJgqmv0X4/720.webp"
      }
    ],
    "next_cursor": "eyJvIjozfQ"
  }
}

Sampled response

Request, 26 Oct 2026

GET /kick/livestreams?limit=24

Items in livestreams

24

Fields filled in every checked item

9

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