darrenj1982 Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share Posted January 27, 2016 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. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony971 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 It's been down for me all day (EST), too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenj1982 Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share Posted January 27, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 There have been occasional issues with them having downtime in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viperstrike Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becket33 Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Hi guys! Any info about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 If it's still down just give it time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenj1982 Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 Good Morning gents. It's still down I see I cant beleive it :( , gutted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFeet Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Still down....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenj1982 Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeioTodo Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dany.henriquez Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev25b Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Its back up now:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dany.henriquez Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 I have the API up and runnning now. Will do testing. Next week it will be live. I will post here when it is))) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 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. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dany.henriquez Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dany.henriquez Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 E-mail sent. Domain name registration is underway. Hosting is almost ready to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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