API is missing information about video chapters

The problem:
When querying past broadcasts/videos etc. for a specific game /videos?game_id=1234567, it returns all the streams that had that game configured at some point during the video. However, the returned VOD may also contain sequences of other games.

Workaround:
On the website there already is a chapter selection, so the information what parts of the vod contains what game is present. Unfortunately, that information is currently only available through the GraphQL-API by querying video moments labelled VIDEO_CHAPTER_MARKERS.

Proposal:
Add information about a video’s chapters to the /videos endpoint.

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In the GQL api chapter transitions have a similar character to stream markers, so maybe the stream marker api could be extended to this?

it returns all the streams that had that game configured at some point during the video

Not quite. Video returns if a specific game in the first chapter of the stream (or video don’t have chapters). And this is very bad, because frequently streamers set “Just Chatting” at the start of the stream, and then the game. In this case API don’t return this video.

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