gistfile1.php

<?php
// This is a small PHP snippet to fetch the amount of viewers for a channel.
$data = @json_decode(file_get_contents('https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/8_bit_hero'), true);
$viewerCount = 0;
if ($data && !is_null($data['stream'])) {
    $viewerCount = $data['stream']['viewers'];
}