# Live tab fixtures

Captured on 2026-10-23 from public channels with the request strawcore sends:
`POST https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/browse`, WEB client envelope
(`build_desktop_envelope`), `utcOffsetMinutes` 0, the channel's `browseId`
and the Live tab params `EgdzdHJlYW1z8gYECgJ6AA==`. Continuation pages were
fetched with `{"continuation": <token>}` against the same endpoint.

| File | Language | What it holds |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `nasa_live.json` | en-GB | 2 scheduled, 2 live, 26 past, continuation |
| `nasa_live_page2.json` | en-GB | page 2 of the above: 30 past, continuation |
| `skynews_live_page2.json` | en-GB | page 2 of `skynews_live.json`: 30 past, two of them with a row naming collaborating channels above the views row, continuation |
| `skynews_live.json` | en-GB | 3 scheduled (one with no waiting count), 2 live, 25 past, continuation |
| `skynews_live_de.json` | de-DE | the same channel in German |
| `lofigirl_live.json` | en-GB | 23 live, 2 past with durations past 999 hours, no continuation |
| `lofigirl_live_de.json` | de-DE | the same channel in German |
| `lofigirl_live_fr.json` | fr-FR | the same channel in French |
| `lofigirl_live_fi.json` | fi | the same channel in Finnish: durations past 999 hours written `20\u00a0772.51.34` |
| `lofigirl_live_id.json` | id | the same channel in Indonesian: durations past 999 hours written `20.772.51.34` |
| `spacex_live.json` | en-GB | 30 past, nothing live or scheduled, continuation |
| `nasa_live_da.json` | da | `nasa_live.json`'s channel in Danish, later the same day: 1 scheduled, 3 live, 26 past, durations written `28.10` and `1.42.26`, continuation |
| `nasaspaceflight_live.json` | en-GB | 1 scheduled, 3 live, 26 past, some with a members-only or fundraiser badge row |
| `nasa_home_tabs.json` | en-GB | tab list of a Home tab response from a channel with a Live tab |
| `kurzgesagt_live_request.json` | en-GB | tab list of the answer to the Live tab params from a channel without a Live tab (its Home tab comes back selected) |

The `da`, `fi` and `id` files were requested with that bare language code
and `gl` GB.

Every response was trimmed with this jq filter before it was saved
(`$mode` is `page`, `continuation` or `tabs`), then written with
`jq -a -c`, so non-ASCII text is kept as JSON escapes. It drops request-bound and
tracking data, item menus and hover actions, the sort and filter chips above
the grid, and the query string of every `i.ytimg.com` URL, and keeps every
other field of each item as captured. The chips and the badge
`animationActivationEntityKey` are dropped because gitleaks 8.21.2 (the
version CI runs) reports opaque tokens in them as generic API keys; neither
is read by the parser:

```jq
def scrub:
  walk(
    if type == "object" then
      del(.trackingParams, .clickTrackingParams, .loggingDirectives, .loggingContext,
          .watchEndpointSupportedOnesieConfig, .menuButton,
          .thumbnailHoverOverlayToggleActionsViewModel, .themedPalette,
          .serviceTrackingParams, .visitorData, .accessibilityContext,
          .animationActivationEntityKey)
      | if has("overlays") and (.overlays | type) == "array"
        then .overlays |= map(select(. != {})) else . end
      | if has("richGridRenderer") then .richGridRenderer |= del(.header) else . end
    elif type == "string" and test("^https://i[0-9]?\\.ytimg\\.com/") then sub("\\?.*$"; "")
    else . end);
if $mode == "page" then {contents} | scrub
elif $mode == "continuation" then {onResponseReceivedActions} | scrub
elif $mode == "tabs" then {contents: {twoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer: {tabs: [.contents.twoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer.tabs[] | if has("tabRenderer") then .tabRenderer |= del(.content) else . end]}}} | scrub
else error("mode") end
```

The `../feed_lookup/` files are the narrowed metadata lookup the
subscription feed already makes per item (`stream_metadata`: the ANDROID
`reel/reel_item_watch` call with
`$fields=playerResponse.playabilityStatus,playerResponse.videoDetails`),
captured the same day for a stream that was live, a past stream and a
scheduled stream. The query string of each `i.ytimg.com` URL was removed
when they were captured; `past_stream.json` was first committed with two
tracking fields (`trackingParams`, `clickTrackingParams`) that were
removed later. Each file now comes out unchanged when the `scrub` filter
above is run on it as the jq program (`jq -a -c`).

`the_fixtures_carry_no_request_bound_data` in `tests/live_tab.rs` reads
every JSON file in both directories and fails on `googlevideo`,
`visitorData`, `trackingParams` or any `...TrackingParams` field, `ip=`
(plain or URL-encoded), a bare IPv4 address, or a thumbnail URL with a
query string.