This is a series of hacky scripts that uses BoardGameGeek's API to download a complete dump of BoardGameGeek's database of board games and the "Geeklists" created by site users. I run these scripts every July and publish the historical data to track changes in the board game industry and how peoples' feelings about games change over time.
Even if you need this data, you probably never need to run these scripts, but here they are in case I stop doing this project or whatever.
To get a complete data dump, run the scripts in order. The first two scripts download the data; the last two convert it from XML to a more usable JSON format.
Downloading the games will take a few hours; downloading the geeklists takes quite a long time.