FreeXenon
American Male (he/him); INTP ADHD Introverted Geek
Everyone, I am looking to put together a huge list, possibly even a very filterable website, which lists all of the main D&D RPG stuff created for all editions. I know there are collectors here who have a lot of this info. I have quite a bit of the info from 3E and earlier already in an XML format like this:
Everything I have is organized into 243 groups like this of various sizes consisting of a total of 934 items (1666 lines) from 3E and earlier, which was pulled and XML'ilifed from a large collector's list PDF I found in the iterwebs.
Needed Info
I need more info in a suitable format preferably - XML, CSV, or spreadsheet organized first by product id, which unique to each product, and is present as the id field from above, as an example.
What product information I need are, in order of need, is the following information:
All data should be organized by product ID or I may may not be able to readily use it. I can aggregate many files into one using scripting, so multiple people sending me files is not a problem. I will use my current XML file and any other files I receive to aggregate them into one XML file via scripting, and then, after normalization and correction, hopefully, I will at least create a scripted page for people to play with. Once that is done and working then I may look at a full website.
I will be more than willing to share the files and data too, at least making the XML file available. At some point I will need assistance by those who will verify and correct the entries I have. I know some of it is not categorized properly.
Can anyone help a data hungry bruth'a out?
Code:
<group publisher="TSR" edition="basic" format="soft cover" category="adventure" series_code="B">
<item id="9023A" series_id="B1:" name="In Search of the Unknown" print_edition_notes="pastel green cover" />
<item id="9023B" series_id="B1:" name="In Search of the Unknown" print_edition_notes="brown cover" />
Everything I have is organized into 243 groups like this of various sizes consisting of a total of 934 items (1666 lines) from 3E and earlier, which was pulled and XML'ilifed from a large collector's list PDF I found in the iterwebs.
Needed Info
I need more info in a suitable format preferably - XML, CSV, or spreadsheet organized first by product id, which unique to each product, and is present as the id field from above, as an example.
What product information I need are, in order of need, is the following information:
- publication month and year,
- ISBN
- authors
- num pages (total, front matter, content, appendices, back matter)
- image of the product's cover
- link to its wikipedia page
- link to its dndclssics page
- possibly links to e-bay or Amazon for specific searches for it or its product page too.
- all 4E and 5E data
All data should be organized by product ID or I may may not be able to readily use it. I can aggregate many files into one using scripting, so multiple people sending me files is not a problem. I will use my current XML file and any other files I receive to aggregate them into one XML file via scripting, and then, after normalization and correction, hopefully, I will at least create a scripted page for people to play with. Once that is done and working then I may look at a full website.
I will be more than willing to share the files and data too, at least making the XML file available. At some point I will need assistance by those who will verify and correct the entries I have. I know some of it is not categorized properly.
Can anyone help a data hungry bruth'a out?

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