TheGamesDB down ?

[darrenj1982]

Any idea what's happening with TheGamesDB it's been down all morning here (UK). Have not been able to work on collections for past 4 hours. :(

[tony971]

It's been down for me all day (EST), too.

[darrenj1982]

tony971 said It's been down for me all day (EST), too.

oh right dam I hope it comes back up soon , seems like an awful long time to be down.

[DOS76]

There have been occasional issues with them having downtime in the past.

[Viperstrike]

Yeah I noticed it went down on 1/26. Of course I have a whole bunch of files to update. You don't appreciate it till it's gone.

[SentaiBrad]

Yea, they are sadly not immune to downtime. I am hardly sure anyone pay's that much attention over there anyways. We've tried contacting them in the past several times to no avail.

[becket33]

Hi guys! Any info about it?

[SentaiBrad]

If it's still down just give it time.

[darrenj1982]

Good Morning gents. It's still down I see I cant beleive it :( , gutted.

[FastFeet]

Still down.......

[darrenj1982]

FastFeet said Still down.......

Yeah pal I keep checking every hour or so. Cant beleive it's still down tbh and cant get any contact with them on fb or twitter. Very strange.

[MeioTodo]

darrenj1982 said Any idea what's happening with TheGamesDB it's been down all morning here (UK). Have not been able to work on collections for past 4 hours. :(

Same here. The site is joining the DBolical Network soon.

[Jason Carr]

Sigh. Every time this happens I'm reminded why I keep wanting to build a database of our own. But @TracyPoff with MobyGames is working on an API, so hopefully we'll be able to move on from this stuff sooner rather than later. That can't happen soon enough.

[dany.henriquez]

I am a Systems engineer for managed services and was searching for info too. I got tired of the gamesdb being offline every time i need it. When the gamesdb is online i am scraping it all and setting up my own on an openstack vm which is distributed over two locations. Varnish cache frontend and memcached caching. The webserver api is complete. When i scrape i will set it online and you are all welcome to use it. It consists of only 5 endpoints and a much better rest interface. The images are also encoded base64 and will be included in the endpoints response. GET /platforms GET /platforms/@platform GET /platforms/@platform/games GET /platforms/@platform/games/@game GET /search?q=@term Give me a heads up if you want to use it. If there is interest i will make it all public. If not then i won't ))) Note: if others want to use it too then I will include monitoring with a SMS service. When an endpoint is unreachable i will get an SMS and fix it.

[kev25b]

Its back up now:)

[dany.henriquez]

I have the API up and runnning now. Will do testing. Next week it will be live. I will post here when it is)))

[Jason Carr]

Thanks Dany. I actually did the same thing; the LocalDB in LaunchBox is a complete copy of all the metadata from TheGamesDB that I distribute with LaunchBox. That said, it would be great to have a mirror of all the images; obviously I can't distribute the images with LaunchBox. So yeah, definitely interested in that. :)

[dany.henriquez]

I think you misunderstand. I created a completely new and restructured database in MongoDB with a easier json api. This is without all the redundant xml. The system also uses gridFS for the images. So no normal file storage like you are used to. I can give you access to my test system if you want, Jason. You will see it is much better and more responsive.

[Jason Carr]

Hi Dany, sure; send me the details to jasondavidcarr at gmail. Per the metadata, again, it's a better solution for us to have all the data locally than to use an external API. That said, I can see it as a good option to add, especially for images.

[dany.henriquez]

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