vroom vroom, Devlog 8: HOW CAN YOU BE SO USELESS MAN?!?! pt.2

im backk! well technically ive been working a bit this whole time ive just not devlogged yet, so its time to report what has happened in the past few days!

so as i mentioned last time, i tried to test with baku fp3, quali, and race, but my plan got cut short right in fp3. sooo due to my bad habit of not investigating deeply and not reading details, i didnt realize that OpenF1 doesnt give out LIVE session data to non-authorized users just historical data, which means there’s a paywall, stardance’s biggest enemy … soo effectively the project became useless in its current state. to add insult to injury, OpenF1 blocks all non-authorized requests to their servers when there’s a live session going on, so the whole app stops working when a live session begins lol

you mean i cant see LIVE data in the f1 LIVE experience app?! what kind of scam is this?!?!

if i had just investigated a bit further i would have found out that F1 themselves give out live session data for free. thing is, i can’t fetch this through web, so i will have to lock the app to desktop upon release.

as for what ive actually done until now, i created a .json that saves the 2026 & 2027 calendars locally so it can fallback to that version when OpenF1 locks their servers and the home menu stops fetching data from them directly. this .json will also be capable of updating its contents when its fetching live from OpenF1, so in case of small inchidents (ahem war) that cause a race to be cancelled or changed of location (i sure love the bahrain gp in malaysia), the local calendar.json can update.