liamengland1
commented
4 years ago Well, apparently I do crappy research and I don't think this works. Disregard the above.
The times of the ads are received in the API request matching the below pattern.
https://play-api.acast.com/livestitch/e6b7eb34-192f-42eb-9c1e-42c41797f806/*?Expires=
Sample response:
```
{
"result": {
"id": "e6b7eb34-192f-42eb-9c1e-42c41797f806/d085da710efea978d8bc3a6b8147ba33",
"url": "https://stitcher.acast.com/livestitches/e6b7eb34-192f-42eb-9c1e-42c41797f806/d085da710efea978d8bc3a6b8147ba33.mp3?...",
"stitchHash": "d085da710efea978d8bc3a6b8147ba33",
"duration": 1379.39,
"timeline": [
{
"type": "ad",
"isDynamic": true,
"duration": 32.184239000000005,
"payload": {
"parts": [
{
"localStart": 0,
"startInStitch": 0,
"duration": 30.066939,
"payload": {
"adId": "AdswizzAd24595",
"adHash": "68b2b544d24dfa9261bbc284fcb8e7c0",
"adPosition": "preroll",
"image": "https://delivery-cdn-cf.adswizz.com/acast/CP_640x640_Banner_static_ad_c86b8b71-4775-4791-8ffb-d0bc8adf48b2.jpg",
"clickUrl": "http://acast.deliveryengine.adswizz.com/companion/ck?..."
}
},
{
"localStart": 30.066939,
"startInStitch": 30.066939,
"duration": 2.1173,
"payload": {
"image": "https://cdn.acast.com/images/ad-banner-black.jpg"
}
}
]
},
"startInStitch": 0,
"startInEpisode": 0,
"hash": "413a844bc66fce2fa47d6287e16aad467c6f8ffd"
},
{
"type": "image",
"id": null,
"isInteractiveMedia": false,
"isDynamic": false,
"payload": {
"image": "https://mediacdn.acast.com/assets/e6b7eb34-192f-42eb-9c1e-42c41797f806/cover-image-k9cldv25-theintelligence_square.jpg",
"description": ""
},
"duration": 539.5,
"startInStitch": 32.184239000000005,
"startInEpisode": 0,
"hash": "bcc9a314d29ce804ff9e7720cfbb3ed7ff2f3e18"
},
{
"type": "ad",
"isDynamic": true,
"duration": 34.30153900000005,
"payload": {
"parts": [
{
"localStart": 0,
"startInStitch": 571.684239,
"duration": 2.1173,
"payload": {
"image": "https://cdn.acast.com/images/ad-banner-black.jpg"
}
},
{
"localStart": 2.1173,
"startInStitch": 573.801539,
"duration": 30.066939,
"payload": {
"adId": "AdswizzAd24595",
"adHash": "0e4d19e1b92ca5401af5e09a7ffc8dca",
"adPosition": "midroll",
"image": "https://delivery-cdn-cf.adswizz.com/acast/CP_640x640_Banner_static_ad_c86b8b71-4775-4791-8ffb-d0bc8adf48b2.jpg",
"clickUrl": "http://acast.deliveryengine.adswizz.com/companion/ck?..."
}
},
{
"localStart": 32.18423900000005,
"startInStitch": 603.8684780000001,
"duration": 2.1173,
"payload": {
"image": "https://cdn.acast.com/images/ad-banner-black.jpg"
}
}
]
},
"startInStitch": 571.684239,
"startInEpisode": 539.5,
"hash": "f50001b16ba1d78a4ac74eb4a8937f29241940f6"
},
{
"type": "image",
"id": null,
"isInteractiveMedia": false,
"isDynamic": false,
"payload": {
"image": "https://mediacdn.acast.com/assets/e6b7eb34-192f-42eb-9c1e-42c41797f806/cover-image-k9cldv25-theintelligence_square.jpg",
"description": ""
},
"duration": 839.89,
"startInStitch": 605.9857780000001,
"startInEpisode": 539.5001,
"hash": "d156a0ed676dc150b3271ab9225d893c8a383f4c"
},
{
"type": "ad",
"isDynamic": true,
"duration": 32.184238999999934,
"payload": {
"parts": [
{
"localStart": 0,
"startInStitch": 1445.875778,
"duration": 2.1173,
"payload": {
"image": "https://cdn.acast.com/images/ad-banner-black.jpg"
}
},
{
"localStart": 2.1172999999998865,
"startInStitch": 1447.993078,
"duration": 30.066939,
"payload": {
"adId": "AdswizzAd24595",
"adHash": "97896cb1593635e755a4b751fb3c3109",
"adPosition": "postroll",
"image": "https://delivery-cdn-cf.adswizz.com/acast/CP_640x640_Banner_static_ad_c86b8b71-4775-4791-8ffb-d0bc8adf48b2.jpg",
"clickUrl": "http://acast.deliveryengine.adswizz.com/companion/ck?..."
}
}
]
},
"startInStitch": 1445.875778,
"startInEpisode": 1379.3901,
"hash": "8a581d9f68b688193b5c4d1d402c2bc80a3c6c1e"
}
]
}
}
```
If all objects with "type": "ad" in the array timeline are removed, then the player does not know when the ads are playing and they can be skipped by the listener using the progress bar/controls.
jspenguin2017
Basic Information
Test link:
https://play.acast.com/s/theintelligencepodcast/e6b7eb34-192f-42eb-9c1e-42c41797f806Category: ads Reported from: United States Template version: 2User Environment
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36 Extension: Nano Adblocker 1.0.0.142
Additional Message
press play => might get instream ads
If ads are to be played,
https://media.acast.com/theintelligencepodcast/rakhineandruin-insurgencyinmyanmar/media.jsonreturns json withadsas a populated object If no ads are to be played,https://media.acast.com/theintelligencepodcast/rakhineandruin-insurgencyinmyanmar/media.jsonreturns json withadsas an empty objectCurrently there is no way to force
adsto be empty using uBo current scriptlets, so reporting this for reference.