Ingest Game-Streaming Data from the Twitch API
Nikolay Petrachkov (Nik for short) is a BI developer in Amsterdam by day, but in his spare time, he combines his passion for games and data engineering by building a project to analyze game-streaming data from Twitch. Nik discovered StreamSets Data Collector when he was looking for a way to build data pipelines to deliver insights from gaming data without having to write a ton of code. In this guest post, reposted from the original with his kind permission, Nik explains how he used StreamSets Data Collector to extract data about streams and games via the Twitch API. It’s a great example of applying enterprise dataops principles to a fun use case. Over to you, Nik…