strawcore/tests/fixtures/live_tab

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:

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.