Bug: cant export session replay .json
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team/session-replay
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Description
Bug Description
Please describe.
The .json exporter in session replay is broken for longer recordings. Users are seeing failed with: Timeout waiting for recording to load
How to reproduce
- Find longer session recording
- try export .json
- failed
Additional context
https://posthoghelp.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/41113 (moved to PostHog: https://us.posthog.com/project/2/support/tickets/43696)
Debug info
- [ ] PostHog Cloud, Debug information: [please copy/paste from https://us.posthog.com/settings/project-details#variables or https://eu.posthog.com/settings/project-details#variables]
- [ ] PostHog Hobby self-hosted with `docker compose`, version/commit: [please provide]
- [ ] PostHog self-hosted with Kubernetes (deprecated, see [`Sunsetting Kubernetes support`](https://posthog.com/blog/sunsetting-helm-support-posthog)), version/commit: [please provide]
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by reproducing the JSON export failure with a longer session recording, then trace the session replay exporter from its entry point; done means longer recordings export successfully without the timeout.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- analytics
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100