Script that can be run with crontab to collect viewer & channel statistics about the top games on Twitch.TV into CSV files

CollectTwitchGameStats.py

import requests, json
import os
import re
import time
import datetime
data_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) + '/data'


api_url = 'https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/games/top?limit=100'

r = requests.get(api_url)
data = r.json()

ts = time.time()
st = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(ts).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

for game in data['top']:
	name = game['game']['name'] 
	name = re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9]', r'', name)
	row = "%s,%s,%s,%s\n" % (ts, st, game['channels'], game['viewers'])
	with open(data_dir + '/' + name + '.csv', 'a+') as f:
		f.write(row)
		f.close()