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Style
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 498 |
Anyone producing "updates" from CSDB?
Hey all
I have a problem looking for a solution - like many others, I have an 1541U with games and demos (mainly from gamebase and some demo collections I forget) but I have no way of keeping it updated.
Is anyone producing an "offical" CSDB image in some way, if only for demos? Would be really nice maybe to have a read-only SVN server backed onto the CSDB database or similar so we can all resync every now and then?
I could rape the CSDB front end, but Im sure itd violate some user policy somewhere and it's a nasty thing to do.
Thanks! |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
jailbird could do it, just look at what an awe gfx site he piggy backed on csdb :) |
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Shine
Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 346 |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Currently the only option is to parse the site by using its web services. I think C64 Scene for iPad works the same way as well.
http://csdb.dk/help.php?section=usage#10 |
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Romppainen
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Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 40 |
...and when people would find out such a possibility and start mass sucking the whole database it would be a bandwidth nightmare. |
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cba
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 935 |
Demo wise just download everything from my FTP site : ftp.scs-trc.net/pub/c64/Demos , almost 100% synced with CSDB. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
if you really want it, pull news via RSS, download new files. couple of lines of script. (do the same with pokefinder if you also want to get whats not added to csdb).
that said, the backend actually uses ftp for the files - but i am not sure if it could take the additional bandwidth |
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Style
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 498 |
Ahhh thanks CBA, Id actually forgotten where Id gotten the original demo tree ages ago, but it was obviously your FTP. Ill just sync your ftp site :) Glad you're keeping it up to date!
thanks bud |
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Sasq
Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 156 |
http://swimsuitboys.com/csdb/
Although it looks like it's time for an update... |
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Feltzkrone
Registered: Oct 2013
Posts: 4 |
Unluckily the web service still produces problematic XML when unsafe characters are present in the content:
http://csdb.dk/webservice/?type=release&id=97105&depth=1
Innstead of having several users making their own syncs by parsing the web service output or the HTML pages and sucking dry server bandwidth + producing lots of database accesses... Why not consider providing backups of the whole database (I guess there's a MySQL, PostgreSQL or some other open source DBMS used as the backend) and torrents for the uploaded files on a snapshot basis? Apart from that: It's always good to have backups in more than one place only.
There might be reasons against my suggestion which I currently don't see, hence I'm asking. :) |
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Mr. SID
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 424 |
Why is that problematic? What would you expect the XML output to look like for that release? |
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