#soop

Live data from SOOP (formerly AfreecaTV, sooplive.co.kr), South Korea's biggest live-streaming platform, read keyless from its public web API. SOOP is where Korea's "BJ" broadcasters stream games, talk, music and just-chatting to audiences that send star-balloon gifts in real time — the platform that defined Korean streaming culture, much bigger there than Twitch. This exposes who is broadcasting live right now, how many are watching, which categories are hot and each broadcaster's standing. The live endpoint lists the top broadcasts on air right now, ranked by current viewers, each with its BJ (broadcaster) name, title, viewer count, category and how long it has been live. The categories endpoint aggregates the top live broadcasts by category — the games and genres pulling the biggest audiences right now. The station endpoint returns one broadcaster's channel profile by their BJ id: follower count, the all-time views and visits their channel has drawn, when they joined, their total hours broadcast, their partner/best-BJ status and whether they are live now. This is the SOOP platform cut — a distinct social/streaming platform, separate from the Twitch, Kick, SHOWROOM, Bilibili and other feeds in the catalogue. Viewer and follower counts are live; nothing is stored beyond a short cache. Counts are integers; times are reported by the platform (KST).

api.oanor.com/soop-api