Plays.tv
Plays.tv | |
Plays.tv is a platform for sharing video game recordings and screenshots. | |
URL | https://plays.tv/ |
Status | Closing |
Archiving status | Upcoming... |
Archiving type | Unknown |
Project source | https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/playstv-grab |
IRC channel | #stops.tv (on hackint) |
Plays.tv is a platform for sharing video game recordings and screenshots. The website will be shutting down on December 15, 2019.[1].
URLs
- Video watch page:
https://plays.tv/video/$VIDEO_WEB_ID
- Thumbnail:
https://d[01]playscdntv-a.akamaihd.net/media/$VIDEO_BUCKET_ID/transcoded/$RESOLUTION.jpg
- Video:
https://d[01]playscdntv-a.akamaihd.net/media/$VIDEO_BUCKET_ID/transcoded/$RESOLUTION.mp4
Video IDs on the watch page URLs are [0-9a-f]{18}
. In the bucket, two video ID schemes are in use: older uploads use a YouTube-like ID of [0-9a-zA-Z_-]{11}
, newer ones are [0-9a-f]{8}[0-9a-z]{10}[0-9a-f]{6}
. For the latter, the web page ID of a video starts with the same eight characters as the bucket ID, but the rest differs.
Known values for $RESOLUTION
include: 144, 360, 480, 720, and 1080, with some resources only supporting lower resolutions.
The site uses two Akamai CDN domains, d0playscdntv-a.akamaihd.net and d1playscdntv-a.akamaihd.net, and both are proxies to the raptr-replay S3 bucket. That bucket contains about 422 million objects totalling 1085 TiB based on a scan from 2019-11-22 to 25.