YoutubeTV - channel with ADB - channel codes

Third party integrations
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This finally got annoying enough for me to get back to. I don’t have a great solution, but I’ve taken another step forward, so posting here in case it helps anyone, or someone can take the next step forwards.

I found the YouTube TV website gets its data from this page:
https://tv.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/unplugged/browse

I haven’t been able to call that directly without getting blocked by their automation detection. So what I’m doing now instead is to manually load the website (tv.youtube.com/live) with dev tools loaded, and copy/pasting the results of the above file to my server. So now I can get all the updated channels at once just by pulling/updating this file. Then I’ve written the attached php to parse the codes from their file into JSON that can be consumed in a REST sensor within HA.

<?php
$youtubeSource = 'browse.json';

$youtubeRaw = json_decode(file_get_contents($youtubeSource), true);

$returnValues = array();

foreach ($youtubeRaw["contents"]["epgRenderer"]["paginationRenderer"]["epgPaginationRenderer"]["contents"] as $channelObj) {    
    $channelName = $channelObj["epgRowRenderer"]["station"]["epgStationRenderer"]["icon"]["accessibility"]["accessibilityData"]["label"];
    $channelValue = $channelObj["epgRowRenderer"]["airings"][0]["epgAiringRenderer"]["navigationEndpoint"]["watchEndpoint"]["videoId"];

    if ($channelValue == "") {
        $channelValue = $channelObj["epgRowRenderer"]["airings"][0]["epgAiringRenderer"]["navigationEndpoint"]["unpluggedPopupEndpoint"]["popupRenderer"]["unpluggedSelectionMenuDialogRenderer"]["items"][0]["unpluggedMenuItemRenderer"]["command"]["watchEndpoint"]["videoId"];
    }

    array_push($returnValues, ["name" => strtoupper(trim($channelName)), "value" => trim($channelValue)]);
}

if (empty($returnValues)) {
    print '{"count":0,"channels":{}}';
} else {
    printf('{"count":%s,"channels":{', count($returnValues) );
    $hasPrinted = false;
    foreach ($returnValues as $row) {
        if ($hasPrinted) 
            print ', ';
        
        printf('"%s": "%s"', $row["name"], $row["value"]);
        $hasPrinted = true;
    }
    print '}}';
}

?>