Introducing the beta for Steam Broadcasting

I've been poking around the frontend code to see if their broadcasts could be embedded, and the answer looks like no.

https://gist.github.com/hayksaakian/8fdc4589ebf908a573a2

the magic happens on

https://gist.github.com/hayksaakian/8fdc4589ebf908a573a2#fil...

you provide a user id an name, and the player JS will feed everything as appropriate.

the current issue involves cookies and CORS issues.

- you can't watch steam broadcasts without being signed in

- steam uses your cookie to generate a viewer id

- there are two steps to getting stream data:

- 1) fetch json containing a manifest link,

- 2) load the manifest link

- both steps check your cookies to verify the viewerid you claimed matches your actual viewerid