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.
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.