Board Game Arena

Hey there,

I am interested in collecting some BGA user's play profile and/or game statistics. Does anyone know if BGA offer relevant APIs?

Thanks!

You are advised to talk with Jurica before doing ANYTHING like this. At minimum it may be against BGA terms of use, and it might even be illegal in some countries to track and collect user data like this without the proper safeguards and warnings.

I don't think there is such API on BGA at the moment, but a crawler that fetches a lot of data could easily be done.

That's why the Better privacy report has so many votes for it.

I don't know if BGA can prevent such crawling, and if it violates their terms of service.
Personally, since the data is publicly available, it seems odd to me not to allow the extraction for a personal use. Sharing it after the extraction might be more controversial.

Blacktango wrote: ↑25 April 2023, 15:04 I don't know if BGA can prevent such crawling, and if it violates their terms of service.

This is clearly against our Term of Use :

[...]
• not to obtain information about Users and the Content they publish using automated methods (such as robots, spiders, etc.); not to use the Services and/or the BGA Sites using automated methods (such as robots, spiders, multiple queries, etc.);
[...]

You guys (bga stuff) should provide these API's as paid service, we having these requests weekly

cnll0075 wrote: ↑23 April 2023, 19:03 Hey there,

I am interested in collecting some BGA user's play profile and/or game statistics. Does anyone know if BGA offer relevant APIs?

Thanks!

While I understand privacy is a concern, there would be no privacy issues with high-level stats. For example, to get high in a game's rankings, it about how much you have played. It would be fun to see stuff like 'what is the highest % win on a game", "what is the highest number of plays by and individual (not providing their name).", "Graph times played v percent win". I'm sure the list goes on.