# Rest API (cURL) - check if live streaming is ON or OFF

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/rest-api-curl-check-if-live-streaming-is-on-or-off/92223>\
**Category:** Wowza Developer Dojo\
**Created:** [October 27, 2020, 8:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rest-api-curl-check-if-live-streaming-is-on-or-off/92223 "2020-10-27T08:36:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lorenzo\_Nargiso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58f4c7/32.png) [@Lorenzo\_Nargiso](https://community.wowza.com/u/Lorenzo_Nargiso)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 8:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rest-api-curl-check-if-live-streaming-is-on-or-off/92223/1 "2020-10-27T08:36:51Z")

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Hello eveyone, I can’t find a way to pass to my external application the status of a live streaming from Wowza Streaming Engine.

I’ll try to explain better:  
I need to know **when live streaming start** and **when live streaming stop** and get the status on my external application (ideally by calling some external API).

There is a way to get these informations from WSE? I can’t find nothing about that.

Thank you

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**Author:** ![Karel\_Boek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/karel_boek/32/454_2.png) [@Karel\_Boek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Karel_Boek)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rest-api-curl-check-if-live-streaming-is-on-or-off/92223/2 "2020-10-27T14:03:59Z")

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WSE doesn’t have any webhooks that trigger when a stream is started or stopped. I suppose you can poll the REST API for a list of streams so that you know when a stream is added or removed to/from the list. Alternatively you can develop a custom module for webhooks; and call the URL of your choice on specific events in WSE. If you want someone to develop such a module for you; you can post a request in the [Hire A Consultant forums](http://community.wowza.com/c/hire-a-consultant/7).