API suggested features
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:51 am
Hi!
I'm trying to be efficient towards your server, and offload some of the processing (like name matching) to my scraper app. I wish there was a simpler way of downloading a complete game title list for each platform, instead of iterating through pages like you do now.
How about a simple API call for downloading a JSON listing all game IDs and titles for a specific platform ID? And also include the total number of games on each platform! Something like this:
{
'platform':'40',
'count':320,
games:
[
{'id':0, 'game_title':'sanxion'},
{'id':1, 'game_title':'delta'},
{'id':2, 'game_title':'quedex'},
etc...
]
}
Screenscraper.fr has something similar, and it's a great time saver.
In addition to that, it would be great if there was a way to download a subset of the list. For example, being able to return all games after list number 320. This is in case you want the games added after the last time you got the list.
Thanks!
I'm trying to be efficient towards your server, and offload some of the processing (like name matching) to my scraper app. I wish there was a simpler way of downloading a complete game title list for each platform, instead of iterating through pages like you do now.
How about a simple API call for downloading a JSON listing all game IDs and titles for a specific platform ID? And also include the total number of games on each platform! Something like this:
{
'platform':'40',
'count':320,
games:
[
{'id':0, 'game_title':'sanxion'},
{'id':1, 'game_title':'delta'},
{'id':2, 'game_title':'quedex'},
etc...
]
}
Screenscraper.fr has something similar, and it's a great time saver.
In addition to that, it would be great if there was a way to download a subset of the list. For example, being able to return all games after list number 320. This is in case you want the games added after the last time you got the list.
Thanks!