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tallbl0nde / NX-Activity-Log

Homebrew application for the Nintendo Switch which displays play activity with more accuracy
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JSON export feature request #49

Closed profucius closed 3 years ago

profucius commented 3 years ago

First of all, love your software. I have a question, I read in the changelog you've added a new JSON export feature. I'm very interested in using this. I wonder if it would be possible to expand this feature from "titles played by the user" to also include an option to export a list of all installed titles (or, titles available to the current user).

My goal is to have games installed on my Switch as a list on my computer, for use cases such as game organization within a frontend (i.e. Launchbox). I realize that this request may not technically be within scope, but if it were to be not too challenging to add, I would love to have this as a feature! I haven't found this feature in any other homebrew yet (but please inform me if there is one). Thanks!

tallbl0nde commented 3 years ago

From the top of my head, this should be possible. I honestly could try writing up a separate .nro that would do what you need as I wouldn't say it fits the scope of NX-Activity-Log.

Do you just need:

profucius commented 3 years ago

Title Name at a bare minimum. However if other data is retrievable and can stored into a text file format like JSON or CSV (and JPG for icons works) whatever is convenient enough, that would be great!

I had planned to use just the Title Names for my front-end and do some manual retrieval of the missing data pieces, but any other information that's possible would make organization that much easier. For instance, would "Release Date" be possible? Not even sure if that is stored anywhere that can be retrieved by a homebrew like this (without perhaps retrieving and parsing a public titles.json file) but if that type of thing is too complex, then no worries.

tallbl0nde commented 3 years ago

I've had a look over the libnx pages and it seems like all the useful data I can get is:

...and other Switch related flags. The list of metadata is here.

I could put it all in a JSON, then either the icons encoded into the JSON or as separate files... which would be easier for you?

profucius commented 3 years ago

Those pieces of data are good.

I looked through that link, is there one that indicates game installation size? I see some mentioning size but not sure if it's one of these. It would be useful to have a record of which games are the largest, but that's optional.

And JSON for the text is good, but I would think the icons would be better exported as separate files. This way it's easier to parse into my front-end, and there is less risk of the whole JSON becoming corrupted if something hangs during the export, etc. Would it be possible to have the JPG icon filenames be the Title Name of the game?

If you were to release the above as-is, it would work for my needs. As I'm typing this though, I'm thinking of little enhancements. These are optional, thinking beyond my own preferences for others who might want to use this. Some ideas if you're interested to develop this beyond the initial release:

profucius commented 3 years ago

If I threw too much into a single message I apologize. I hope I didn't overload you. If your time is scarce and you just are able to put out the minimum Title Name export, that would suffice for my needs. Oh and if you decide to create a repo for this, please link me. Thanks!

tallbl0nde commented 3 years ago

I've just been busy, I'm just gonna chuck together a .nro that exports a JSON of all installed titles' metadata and then export the icons to files as you've requested. I just offered to do this cause I know how to do so fairly quickly, so I don't wanna make it fancy :P

I looked through that link, is there one that indicates game installation size?

I don't think so.

tallbl0nde commented 3 years ago

Give this a go: https://github.com/tallbl0nde/TMetaDump/releases/tag/v1.0.0