Legit MobyGames Scraper 1.0.0

Hi @slipsystem there is a new beta that recognize alternate names for games.

Is it in your plans integrate it with your plugin?. Can it be match with the alternate names of Mobygames?

@slipsystem I tried to get a APIkey from Mobygames, but Simon answered this to me:

"Thanks! We are not permitting API use for plugin users right now because that will be a lot of work for us to individually approve API use manually for LOTS of users, sorry. We will be allowing plugins that grab images to their own database and allow Launchbox users to access them there. We have had multiple Launchbox plugin authors contact us recently so we imagine one of them will sort this out soon"

What can we do to use the plugin?.

2 minutes ago, flores9 said:

@slipsystem I tried to get a APIkey from Mobygames, but Simon answered this to me:

"Thanks! We are not permitting API use for plugin users right now because that will be a lot of work for us to individually approve API use manually for LOTS of users, sorry. We will be allowing plugins that grab images to their own database and allow Launchbox users to access them there. We have had multiple Launchbox plugin authors contact us recently so we imagine one of them will sort this out soon"

What can we do to use the plugin?.

Simon told me he is not giving out api keys for this anymore. I am not sure what he means by grabbing to our own database. he sent me this.

 

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You would need to run your own database in the middle and have requests go through your server....

its almost like he is saying we can build something that does this.

if the user tries to scrape Doom for Dos.

check our database.

if its not found.

make an api call and download the media to our database.

then release the media from our database to the user

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i mean our database not the LaunchBox database. I dont know how moderation works on mobygames.

 

im not that clued up when it comes to web services so i probably wouldnt be able to do this.

 

@Jason Carr - would it be unethical for the users to submit media scraped from mobygames the the gamesdatabase?

not talking about bulk dumps of media. i know a few people have api keys already, if we submit media using the submit to games database plugin would that be unethical? i mean how do we actually know  where the media comes from?

 

 

@slipsystem That is one thing that has been really tough to figure out, and it's the reason why we never allowed submitting games in batch from directly within LaunchBox. Honestly there's really nothing we can do about it either way. I don't really understand what Simon's getting at though, since he doesn't want to release API keys to users.

Just make sure any media you submitted does not have watermarks or it should be rejected anyway