[YouTube-API] Re: Live events, times and delayed status

Hello Greg,

There's no way to test these things without having an live-enabled
account, unfortunately.

The last time I played around with the live events API, I don't
recall the "start" attribute actually getting updated when you click
"Start broadcasting" in the UI, nor the "end" attribute being updated
to match the real end time. I think that the way to view the "start"
and "end" attributes are as guides that indicate the anticipated start
and end time to users who might be browsing the site to find active
events, rather than as times used to trigger/end the actual broadcast.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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On Mar 15, 11:12 am, Greg Jones <psycle....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm retrieving the details for a channel's live events using the api and
> have a couple of questions relating to how the broadcaster workflow matches
> up to the api responses:
>
> Does a status of 'delayed' against a live event happen automatically if the
> start time passes without someone having clicked 'Start Broadcasting', or
> is something the channel-owner sets explicitly?
>
> With 'start', does that get updated when someone clicked 'Start
> broadcasting' to reflect the actual start time?
> Similarly for 'end', does that get updated if an event is manually ended
> early or late?
>
> Is there any way for a developer to test these kinds of things without
> actually having a live-enabled account? I wouldn't actually want to
> broadcast anything...
>
> Greg.

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