Board games data scraping and processing from BoardGameGeek and more!
Scraping data about board games from the web. View the data live at Recommend.Games! Install via
pip install board-game-scraper
bgg)dbpedia)luding)spielen)wikidata)Requires Python 3. Make sure Pipenv is installed and create the virtual environment:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pipenv
pipenv install --dev
pipenv shell
Run a spider like so:
JOBDIR="jobs/${SPIDER}/$(date --utc +'%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S')"
scrapy crawl "${SPIDER}" \
--output 'feeds/%(name)s/%(time)s/%(class)s.csv' \
--set "JOBDIR=${JOBDIR}"
where $SPIDER is one of the IDs above.
Run all the spiders with the run_scrapers.sh script. Get a
list of the running scrapers' PIDs with the processes.sh
script. You can close all the running scrapers via
./processes.sh stop
and resume them later.
You can run scrapy check to perform contract tests for all spiders, or
scrapy check $SPIDER to test one particular spider. If tests fails,
there most likely has been some change on the website and the spider needs
updating.
If you are interested in using any of the datasets produced by this scraper, take a look at the BoardGameGeek guild. A subset of the data can also be found on Kaggle.
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Board games data scraping and processing from BoardGameGeek and more!
We found that board-game-scraper demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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