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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon grimsi

alternative databases

Open binarygeek119 opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

launchbox db is a great source for many platforms for images and info https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/

also another one would be for media (not sure about info) https://emumovies.com/

binarygeek119 avatar Oct 23 '22 14:10 binarygeek119

While certainly interesting to add support for multiple data sources, it would be a rather complex task since I developed Gameyfin around the IGDB API. Also I never had any issues with missing data from IGDB, the only limitation are the requirement of a Twitch account and the rather strict API request rate limits, but apart from that IGDB seems to be the most complete and feature-rich DB for video games.

I will keep this open, but don't expect any progress soon since there are more "urgent" issues

grimsi avatar Oct 24 '22 07:10 grimsi

I think it would be great to open the world up by

  1. Allowing user-defined games for those not in an existing DB (#91's title is misleading...)
  2. Add the ability to have addons so any data source could be used should the users be kind enough to help develop the scrapers (probably python for ease of user scripting).

PhuriousGeorge avatar Feb 18 '23 02:02 PhuriousGeorge

I think a plugin system might work out better. That way a user could implement their own scraper. Maybe something like pf4j-spring could be used?

colonelpopcorn avatar Jun 27 '23 18:06 colonelpopcorn