I am interested in accessing the data of igdb.com for a hobby project. They have an api that is “free”, ie it requires a twitch account with 2fa enabled which means i would need to hand over my phone number to twitch. That is a hard no from my side.
Anyone know of a way to get a dump of their database or a similar source where i could get api access without revealing personal information? For my project i am after only title, release year, some sort of rating and some sort of playtime.
The free tier of IGDB has a rate limit of 4 requests per second and they will block you if you try to download the entire database, so this may be a dead end anyway.
Found a 4 megabyte dump that seems promising though it’s from 2018 so outdated.
https://gist.github.com/LeWawan/5858a9e7bef0f3dc4a79ac8bc1e3380c
Another one, a 68MB 3 year old “dataset” for AI training that seems related to IGDB.
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/anudeepvanjavakam/igdb-api-data/data
I managed to request 363,020 entries at 500 page size 1 request per second in about 20 minutes, so they don’t seem to be super strict. Though weirdly after I load them into a dict to dedupe the IDs I get 362,969, haven’t looked into what’s going on there.