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Export via API
Posted: 28 May 2021, 09:39
by kumaheiyama
Hi,
I'm keeping track of game sessions on BoardGameGeek, and since the pandemic there has been a lot of online game sessions I would like to add to those statistics.
Preferably I would like to build a plugin/interface/tool to transfer data from BGA to BGG without having to use scraping.
I saw the following post
https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewto ... =9&t=15014 and am wondering if this is something that has been looked at? The post is now closed.
/K
Re: Export via API
Posted: 13 June 2021, 16:39
by Noizette
Hey, I would love to have this functionality too!
I'm clearly playing more on BGA, and started recently to log plays on BGG, and would love it to be synced. But I admit, if i have to do it by hand... it's not much fun
Re: Export via API
Posted: 28 July 2021, 21:36
by SteveV
+1 to +1!
I'm my gaming groups official unofficial record keeper and using an API to pull recent games instead of lots (and lots) of clicking would be ideal!
Re: Export via API
Posted: 28 August 2021, 12:43
by lubaroli
+1 to support this feature!
Re: Export via API
Posted: 23 October 2021, 19:47
by b34r
PLEASE work on this feature. This is the last thing that would put BGA over the top. +1
Re: Export via API
Posted: 24 November 2021, 00:21
by Noizette
Hey, I just created a script to help import your BGA plays to BGG, everything is explained here:
https://gitlab.com/ramoloss/bgg-import-plays-from-csv/
I thought that might interest you!
Re: Export via API
Posted: 28 November 2021, 09:50
by dschingis27
Thanks for this! It is important to note however that this
(1) Probably only works with LibreOffice (not MS Excel!)
(2) Only works if your BGA language settings are French or English (or something that produces the same date formats like French/English).
The problem is that language settings also influence the date and time formats printed on BGA. So either you have to temporarily change language settings to French or English, or (better) adjust the "Date" and "Duration" column in the given ODS file according to your country's date/time format.
Re: Export via API
Posted: 02 December 2021, 03:28
by Noizette
dschingis27 wrote: ↑28 November 2021, 09:50
Thanks for this! It is important to note however that this
(1) Probably only works with LibreOffice (not MS Excel!)
(2) Only works if your BGA language settings are French or English (or something that produces the same date formats like French/English).
Yep, of course! It was more intended to be a base to adjust/craft to your situation (which, I guess, if you know how to run scripts you probably have knowledge to edit patterns on two of these lines), but it doesn't cost anything to specify it, right!
About Excel, is it about formulas or something like that? Can't these softwares convert function to each other formats? Or is it you can't paste table into it or something else?
Re: Export via API
Posted: 05 December 2021, 11:25
by dschingis27
Noizette wrote: ↑02 December 2021, 03:28
About Excel, is it about formulas or something like that? Can't these softwares convert function to each other formats? Or is it you can't paste table into it or something else?
Yes, it seems not straightforward for MS Excel to import formulas from other spreadsheet apps. With MS Excel, there are even different formulas in different countries and country settings can matter quite a lot. And I think pasting stuff from a browser also behaves different between different apps.
(Also another part of your 'manual' only works in LibreOffice, that is "Press backspace and tick 'objects'", it doesn't work like this in MS Excel.)
For those who don't know: LibreOffice is
free and easy to install and use!
Re: Export via API
Posted: 09 December 2021, 13:38
by frankenStain
+1