Case study

Haxball Rooms API: decoding the binary room listing

Haxball Rooms API documents the binary room-listing response used by the Haxball game and displays parsed rooms in a browser table. Its layout notes identify length fields, room IDs, names, flags, coordinates, password status and player counts by byte offset.

Targets: Game · Protocol
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2023-03-04
Language: CSS

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: The browser page reads the Haxball Rooms API.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{haxball-rooms-api-case,
  title = {{Haxball Rooms API: decoding the binary room listing}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Skarmunds/haxball_rooms_api}},
  url = {https://github.com/Skarmunds/haxball_rooms_api},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/haxball-rooms-api-case/}}
}

Plain text

Haxball Rooms API: decoding the binary room listing. https://github.com/Skarmunds/haxball_rooms_api (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/haxball-rooms-api-case/

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README.md GitHub · Skarmunds/haxball_rooms_api · Revision 0f8c997