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Retrieve Game Data #8

Open TimothySung1 opened 1 month ago

TimothySung1 commented 1 month ago

We want to retrieve game data. Do we do this in an existing API where we get live updates, or should we store our own database? An option for retrieving game data is the IGDB API: https://api-docs.igdb.com/#getting-started.

This issue will involve finding a suitable data source (API or one-time download data file) and integrating it with PostgreSQL.

There are two steps:

  1. Find a data source with acceptable information on games
  2. Convert the data into our own local storage (SQL)

For converting it into local storage, we want to define the SQL database structure (tables, functions, views, etc.), which may be slightly complicated.

Since this issue is pretty major and somewhat complicated, try to work with a few others on this (including me)

TimothySung1 commented 1 month ago

Update: Don't worry about the SQL stuff yet, refer to issue #10 for that. As of now, just try to find some suitable data source that we can temporarily use directly to service our endpoints.