MobyGames Linked Data generator

Tools to build an RDF dataset out of the MobyGames database, http://mobygames.com/

You are free to use, modify and redistribute this tool under the terms of the License. However, you are not permitted to redistribute the data generated using this tool unless otherwise authorised by MobyGames.

Please do NOT contact us asking for the data or for a MobyGames API key: contact Simon Carless and the other MG folks instead, they're really nice guys.

Features

• Extraction of data on games, game groups, platforms and genres
• Reverse linking with Wikidata
• Writing to SPARQL endpoints, even if behind Basic HTTP Authentication.

Requirements

1. An API key for the MobyGames HTTP API. For more information on how to obtain one, check out https://www.mobygames.com/info/api
2. Python 3 and pip
3. A SPARQL endpoint where you can perform UPDATE operations

Building

1. Clone this repo
2. python setup.py install or pip install -r requirements.txt

Running

1. Create a config.json file where the config.sample.json resides and complete it accordingly (especially by filling in the MobyGames API key and SPARQL UPDATE endpoint).
2. python linkedmoby.py

For additional options, check the output of python linkedmoby.py -h.