JSON Formats

For Event Webcasts

List of dicts where each dict is as follows:

Livestream: {"type": "livestream", "channel": "<channel id #>", "file": "<event id #>"}

• Example: {"type": "livestream", "channel": "3136927", "file": "1964881"}

Twitch TV: {"type": "twitch", "channel": "<channel name>"}

• Example: {"type": "twitch", "channel": "tbacast"}

Ustream: {"type": "ustream", "channel": "<channel id #>"}

• Example: {"type": "ustream", "channel": "6540154"}

RTMP: {"type": "rtmp", "channel": "<stream URL>", "file": "<file name>"}

• Example: {"type": "rtmp", "channel": "s3b78u0kbtx79q.cloudfront.net/cfx/st/", "file": "mp4:bauhaus"}
• Important: Don't include the rtmp:// protocol prefix on the stream URL

HTML5 (HLS): {"type": "html5", "channel": "<stream URL>"}

• Example: {"type": "html5", "channel": "http://solutions.brightcove.com/jwhisenant/hls/apple/bipbop/bipbopall.m3u8"}

For Special Webcasts

The gameday.special_webcasts sitevar contains information about extra webcasts as well as other metadata for GameDay. Example:

{
  "webcasts": [
    {
      "key_name": "firstupdatesnow",
      "type": "twitch",
      "name": "FIRST Updates Now",
      "channel": "firstupdatesnow"
    },
    {
      "key_name": "gamesense",
      "type": "twitch",
      "name": "GameSense",
      "channel": "frcgamesense"
    }
  ],
  "aliases": {
    "fun": "#layout=0&view_0=firstupdatesnow-1",
    "gamesense": "#layout=0&view_0=frcgamesense-1"
  }
}