ZedSpot Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 (edited) Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this, but I'm just wondering if anyone can help shed light on this. I'm trying to compile large amounts of data across hundreds of games (# of Players, Age Rating, Genre, etc.) and I have found that TheGamesBD.net is a good source for this info. What I'm trying to learn now, is how to scape the data from this site to have it populate into a Google Sheet. I know LaunchBox scrapes data from here so perhaps some of the code is similar? Any tips would be greatly appreciated! UPDATE: Here is where I'm at so far, I have been able to display: Players: Co-op: Genres: Release Date: Developer: Publisher: By using the code: =importxml(A1,"//span[@class='grey']") "A1" being a cell with the URL of the game I'm interested in. Still trying to figure out how to get the actual values for those categories to populate. Edited November 16, 2017 by ZedSpot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 I don't believe LB has a public API that lets you tie in to the data but I'm not an expert and could be mistaken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cZ8tL Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Data from Metadata/Metadata.xml could be sufficient? There are entries for 59776 games, 17250 with release year, 43603 with developer, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.