2021 API Update

[TheDevFreak]

Investigate the new API.

We need to know:

• Authentication
• List Seasons
• List Events
• List Sessions
• List channels of sessions
• Get M3U8 links.

[robvdpol]

Unfortunately, it seems that the new API doesn't contain any generic functions for retrieving seasons/events/sessions. Or at least, I haven't been able to find them. Instead, the API is now used to retrieve the actual layout of the website.

For example this page:
https://f1tv.formula1.com/page/392/2020-season

Uses the following API call to get the contents of the page:
https://f1tv.formula1.com/2.0/R/ENG/WEB_DASH/ALL/PAGE/392/F1_TV_Pro_Annual/2

This returns a JSON structure with all kinds of headers, titles, subtitles, links that are used to render the page.

Eventually you end up with a contentId that can be used to generate a tokenized stream URL.

[TheDevFreak]

@robvdpol Unfortunately, can confirm..... The closest I got was

https://f1tv.formula1.com/2.0/R/ENG/WEB_DASH/ALL/PAGE/SEARCH/VOD/F1_TV_Pro_Monthly/2?filter_objectSubtype=Meeting&orderBy=meeting_End_Date&sortOrder=asc&filter_season=2021&filter_meetingsUpcoming=Y&filter_orderByFom=Y

Which is by no means perfect because, even with 2021 set, if you set filter_meetingsUpcoming to N it shows every session for 2021; but not pre season testing while when set to Y it does show pre season testing AND all other events (or rather, "Meetings" now)

[TheDevFreak]

Here is all the digging into the API I've achieved so far today.

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://gist.githubusercontent.com/TheDevFreak/f70efb05e53884c09e1fb6d11902402c/raw/5bf61d10298ed320b07db7cb492e1d82dfc0d861/yep.html

@robvdpol @leonardoxh and @SoMuchForSubtlety may all find this useful.

[TheDevFreak]

@TheDevFreak One problem i've found, is that their search function only returns the first 100 results from your query, and there's no way to paginate through it or anything like that. So if I asked it to give me all videos (by default it orders alphabetically by title), it will only return 100, and there's no way to request more. I can add a &maxResults=10 option, which will give me the 1st 10, but if I go above 100, it still only returns up to 100.

Yeah, I noticed this too I've not worked out how you're supposed to step past 100; I guess you just don't :/ worth noting the &filter_orderByFom=Y does seem to make it chronological, sort of.

[anthonylavado]

Someone is doing Python work here: https://github.com/kodosexe/F1Hub

Not sure if it's useful, but I wanted to pass it along.

[waterfietser]

AppleTV app using new API: https://github.com/NoahFetz/F1AppleTV
I don't have an AppleTV so didn't try, but might be useful as well.

[KenLPham]

AppleTV app using new API: https://github.com/NoahFetz/F1AppleTV
I don't have an AppleTV so didn't try, but might be useful as well.

https://github.com/NoahFetz/F1AppleTV/blob/5378a0f3e0547a955b8fa1b3799df114cf6e1fe5/F1A-TV/Networking/NetworkRouter.swift#L139

Seems to still be using the old API

[SoMuchForSubtlety]

It would be interesting to investigate what API the android app uses. I wouldn't be surprised it that still uses the old API.

[TheDevFreak]

It would be interesting to investigate what API the android app uses. I wouldn't be surprised it that still uses the old API.

Yeah, I think that will make it easier - whenever they update the app..... I've not received one yet.