Feature: VAST Unwrapper module

[karimMourra]

Type of issue

Feature Request

Description

The Video Committee has identified the need for a module capable of unwrapping VAST URLs. This would provide information that is valuable to publishers and vendors acting on behalf of Publishers, such as:

• Does the VAST tag respond with a valid ad
• the duration of the Ad
• the Universal Ad ID
• The creative ID

Technical Requirements:

• supported inputs:

  • VAST tag URL as string
  • VAST XML as string

• Configuration options:

  • max amount of redirects

• can request the VAST tag URL

• can parse the VAST XML

• Supports VAST versions: [TBD]

• returns metadata including the following information:

  • was the response invalid
    • response was empty
    • max redirects exceeded
  • Ad System
  • Ad Serving ID
  • Advertiser
  • Pricing (Refer to section 3.4.8 of the VAST 4 spec)
  • Expires (Refer to section 3.4.10 of the VAST 4 spec)
  • VAST version
  • Total amount of Ads
    • greater than 1 for ad pods
  • Total ad duration
  • for each Ad element:
    • ad duration
    • Universal Ad ID
    • sequence in pod
    • ad type (video, audio, hybrid.)

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