ezekeal / bgg-get

bgg-get

get the data for a list of games from board game geek and export it to a json file

how to use

Install globally to use in the command line

$ npm i -g bgg-get

Create an xlsx file with a list of board game geek id numbers you can get the id number from the link to the game's page

For example the id for Catan is 13 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13/catan

then run in the console

$ bgg-get --sheet=[sheet name] \
--column=[column name] \
--src=[path to xlsx file] \
--out=[path to save your file]

example

$ bgg-get --sheet='Sheet1' \
--column='id' \
--src=./bgg.xlsx \
--out=./my-data.json