# Twitch user:edit scope

**URL:** <https://community.auth0.com/t/twitch-user-edit-scope/79347>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** social, scopes, social-connections\
**Created:** [March 6, 2022, 8:03am UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/twitch-user-edit-scope/79347 "2022-03-06T08:03:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![noobpanda](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/User_font_awesome.svg/768px-User_font_awesome.svg.png) [@noobpanda](https://community.auth0.com/u/noobpanda)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 8:03am UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/twitch-user-edit-scope/79347/1 "2022-03-06T08:03:03Z")

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Hello  
I’m using the Twitch connection but unfortunately it locks the `user:edit` scope.  
I’m not using this scope and it alarms my users that I’m getting this permissions for their accounts.  
Any way to bypass this other than creating a new custom social connection?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![dan.woda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/dan.woda/32/18340_2.png) [@dan.woda](https://community.auth0.com/u/dan.woda)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/twitch-user-edit-scope/79347/4 "2022-03-10T17:48:29Z")

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Hi @noobpanda,

It looks like you would have to set up a custom connection…but it’s odd, I don’t see a `user:read` option available in the Twitch API docs. All of the `user:read` scopes are for specific resources like `email` or `follows`. Even in their example they user the `user:edit` scope. This might explain why we used this as the default.

 ![Screen Shot 2022-03-10 at 9.44.01 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/original/3X/4/2/4225127002963469dea802e09440cb839e92ece8.png)

Are you seeing a simple read-only scope (i.e. `user:read`) for the user in the token?

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**Author:** ![noobpanda](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/User_font_awesome.svg/768px-User_font_awesome.svg.png) [@noobpanda](https://community.auth0.com/u/noobpanda)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/twitch-user-edit-scope/79347/5 "2022-03-10T18:14:12Z")

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Hey @dan.woda  
Yeah I found it odd as well. The Twitch social connection is pretty shaky.  
Any chance it’s open sourced? I’d be happy to contribute.

Thank you for looking into it!

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**Author:** ![dan.woda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/dan.woda/32/18340_2.png) [@dan.woda](https://community.auth0.com/u/dan.woda)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/twitch-user-edit-scope/79347/6 "2022-03-10T18:27:34Z")

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Unfortunately, it doesn’t look it. Are you seeing a simple read-only scope (i.e. `user:read` ) for the user in the token from twitch?

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**Author:** ![noobpanda](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/User_font_awesome.svg/768px-User_font_awesome.svg.png) [@noobpanda](https://community.auth0.com/u/noobpanda)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/twitch-user-edit-scope/79347/7 "2022-03-10T19:36:09Z")

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No. I’m seeing `user:edit user:read:email`.  
I’m trying to keep it lean as `user:read:email`.

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**Author:** ![dan.woda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/dan.woda/32/18340_2.png) [@dan.woda](https://community.auth0.com/u/dan.woda)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/twitch-user-edit-scope/79347/8 "2022-05-25T21:15:58Z")

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