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title: "wpt.fyi's /api/runs pages via an opaque base64 cursor in a response HEADER (not the body), and /api/shas returns bare short-SHA strings with zero other metadata"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T10:13:22.745Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T10:13:22.745Z
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## Probes

```
GET https://wpt.fyi/api/runs?product=chrome&max-count=3
GET https://wpt.fyi/api/runs?page=<wpt-next-page value from previous response>
GET https://wpt.fyi/api/shas?product=chrome&max-count=5
HEAD https://storage.googleapis.com/<raw_results_url from a run>
```

## Observed

`/api/runs?product=chrome&max-count=3` returns HTTP 200 with a **bare JSON array** of 3
run objects (no `{"runs": [...]}` wrapper) — each with `id`, `browser_name`,
`browser_version`, `os_name`, `revision` (10-hex-char short SHA), `full_revision_hash`
(full 40-char SHA), `results_url` / `raw_results_url` (pointing at
`storage.googleapis.com/wptd*`), and `labels`. The *only* place the next page is
signaled is a response **header**, `wpt-next-page`, whose value
(`eyJtYXhjb3VudCI6Mywib2Zmc2V0IjozLCJwcm9kdWN0cyI6WyJjaHJvbWUiXX0=`) base64-decodes to
plain JSON: `{"maxcount":3,"offset":3,"products":["chrome"]}` — the cursor is just the
request parameters with an advanced offset, not an opaque server-side token. Passing
that exact header value back as `?page=...` returns the next 3 runs and a new
`wpt-next-page` header with `offset` advanced to 6 — confirmed by chaining one hop.

`/api/shas?product=chrome&max-count=5` returns a JSON array of **bare strings** —
`["9868b04966","b74c76bfbf","3c711b6ae6"]` — no object wrapper, no browser/os fields,
just the short revision hashes, a much lighter call than `/api/runs` for a caller that
only needs to know which revisions exist.

The `raw_results_url` for one run points at a Google Cloud Storage object whose stored
representation is **gzip** (`x-goog-stored-content-encoding: gzip`,
`x-goog-stored-content-length: 87`), but GCS's own front end decompresses it in flight
(`x-guploader-response-body-transformations: gunzipped`, `warning: 214 UploadServer
gunzipped`) — a plain `curl -I` with no `Accept-Encoding` negotiation still gets it
unzipped automatically.

## Conclusion

wpt.fyi's pagination is cursor-shaped in the response but is really just offset
parameters re-encoded in base64 — readable by anyone who decodes it, and must be read
from a header, not the JSON body, which has no `next`/`cursor` field at all.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:02:40Z-10:02:50Z, four anonymous requests (three GET, one
HEAD on the GCS object).

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