Gatherer Scraper

Introduction

Magic the Gathering card database scraper. Uses magicripper2 code to get card ID's. After you have the card ID's you can run the Nodejs app to get the card details into a MongoDB instance.

Please be patient - I'll add better comments/documentation as soon as I can (I know, developer promises).

Requirements

Node.js - [http://nodejs.org/] (nodejs.org)
MongoDB - [http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Quickstart] (mongodb.org)
Request - npm install request
Mongoose - npm install mongoose
Cheerio - npm install cheerio
Python 2.x

How to Use

Get the ID's:

$ python getall.py

Wait a bit... until you see "Completely Finished........"

Then, load MongoDB (in a separate terminal window) and run the Node app:

$ mkdir data
$ mongod --dbpath ./data/
$ node app.js

When it's done, just ctrl-c to get out of the Node app (for now - I'm lazy). I've noticed it stops at around 99.37% - probably something I should figure out eventually.

It's that easy!

Viewing a database entry

Make sure you have MongoDB running:

$ mongod --dbpath ./data/

Try logging into the MongoDB instance and running:

$ mongo
> use magic
> db.cards.findOne().pretty()

You'll see the basic structure of the object. It should look something like:

{
    "setname" : "10E",
    "front" : {
        "artist" : "Kev Walker",
        "pt" : "4 / 4",
        "othersets" : {
            "0" : "Limited Edition Alpha (Uncommon)",
            "1" : "Limited Edition Beta (Uncommon)",
            "2" : "Unlimited Edition (Uncommon)",
            "3" : "Revised Edition (Uncommon)",
            "4" : "Fourth Edition (Uncommon)",
            "5" : "Fifth Edition (Uncommon)",
            "6" : "Classic Sixth Edition (Uncommon)",
            "7" : "Seventh Edition (Uncommon)",
            "8" : "Eighth Edition (Uncommon)",
            "9" : "Ninth Edition (Uncommon)",
            "10" : "Tenth Edition (Uncommon)",
            "11" : "Magic 2010 (Uncommon)",
            "12" : "Starter 1999 (Uncommon)",
            "13" : "Battle Royale Box Set (Uncommon)",
            "14" : "Beatdown Box Set (Uncommon)",
            "15" : "Portal Second Age (Uncommon)",
            "16" : "Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra (Uncommon)",
            "17" : "Masters Edition IV (Uncommon)"
        },
        "colors" : [
            "Blue"
        ],
        "number" : "64",
        "rarity" : "Uncommon",
        "converted" : 5,
        "flavor" : {
            "0" : "\"The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.\"",
            "1" : "—Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea"
        },
        "set" : "Tenth Edition",
        "text" : {
            "0" : "Flying"
        },
        "type" : "Creature  — Elemental",
        "mana" : {
            "0" : "3",
            "1" : "Blue",
            "2" : "Blue"
        },
        "name" : "Air Elemental"
    },
    "id" : 129459,
    "_id" : ObjectId("4fe1757a2367d0db7500000a")
}

Looks like you have a populated database!

To find a specific card by name (for instance):

> db.cards.find({ 'front.name' : 'Launch Party' }).pretty()

{
    "setname" : "RTR",
    "front" : {
        "artist" : "Lucas Graciano",
        "pt" : "None",
        "othersets" : "None",
        "colors" : [
            "Black"
        ],
        "number" : "69",
        "rarity" : "Common",
        "converted" : 4,
        "flavor" : {
            "0" : "Life's too short to not do the things you love."
        },
        "set" : "Return to Ravnica",
        "text" : {
            "0" : "As an additional cost to cast Launch Party, sacrifice a creature.",
            "1" : "Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life."
        },
        "type" : "Instant",
        "mana" : {
            "0" : "3",
            "1" : "Black"
        },
        "name" : "Launch Party"
    },
    "id" : 270781,
    "_id" : ObjectId("50949863484b4a000000008c")
}

License

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.