BGG-API

A Python API wrapper for BoardGameGeek

Note

The documentation is a work in progress. You can check out the unit tests for examples on how to use the library.

Introduction

bgg-api is a Python wrapper to easily access data from BoardGameGeek XML API.

It’s continuation of boardgamegeek2, which is an almost completely rewritten fork of libBGG.

Table of Contents

• Modules
  • boardgamegeek.api - Core functions
  • BGGClient
  • boardgamegeek.collection - Collection information
  • Collection
  • boardgamegeek.exceptions - Exceptions
  • boardgamegeek.games - Games information
  • CollectionBoardGame
  • BoardGame
  • BoardGameRank
  • PlayerSuggestion
  • BoardGameStats
  • BoardGameComment
  • BoardGameVideo
  • BoardGameVersion
  • boardgamegeek.guild - Guild information
  • Guild
  • boardgamegeek.hotitems - BoardGameGeek “Hot Items”
  • HotItem
  • HotItems
  • boardgamegeek.plays - BoardGameGeek “Plays”
  • GamePlays
  • UserPlays
  • PlaySession
  • PlaysessionPlayer
  • boardgamegeek.search - Search results
  • SearchResult
  • boardgamegeek.things - Generic objects
  • Thing
  • boardgamegeek.user - BoardGameGeek “Users”
  • User
  • boardgamegeek.utils - Generic helper functions
  • DictObject
  • RateLimitingAdapter
  • fix_url()
  • get_link_by_type()
  • request_and_parse_xml()
  • xml_subelement_attr()
  • xml_subelement_attr_list()
  • xml_subelement_text()
• Changelog
  • 1.1.13
  • 1.1.12
  • 1.1.11
  • 1.1.10
  • 1.1.9
  • 1.1.8
  • 1.1.7
  • 1.1.6
  • 1.1.5
  • 1.1.4
  • 1.1.3
  • 1.1.2
  • 1.1.1
  • 1.1.0
  • 1.0.1
  • 1.0.0
  • 0.13.2
  • 0.13.1
  • 0.13.0
  • 0.12.1
  • 0.12.0
  • 0.11.2
  • 0.11.1
  • 0.11.0
  • 0.10.1
  • 0.10.0
  • 0.9.0
  • 0.8.1
  • 0.8.0
  • 0.7.1
  • 0.7.0
  • 0.6.0
  • 0.5.0
  • 0.4.3
  • 0.4.2
  • 0.4.0
  • 0.3.0
  • 0.2.0 (unreleased)
  • 0.1.0
  • 0.0.14
  • 0.0.13
  • 0.0.12
  • 0.0.11
  • 0.0.10
  • 0.0.9

Features

This library exposes (as Python objects with properties) the following BoardGameGeek entities:

• Games

• Users

• User collections

• Player guilds

• Plays

• Hot items

requests-cache is used for locally caching replies in order to reduce the amount of requests sent to the server.

BoardGameGeek API documentation can be found here

Note

The cache is enabled by default and it’s configured to use memory only. It’s also possible to use SQLite for a persistent cache.

Installation

pip install bgg-api

Usage

Obtain access token here: https://boardgamegeek.com/applications

from boardgamegeek import BGGClient

bgg = BGGClient("access_token")

game = bgg.game("Monopoly")

print(game.year)  # 1935
print(game.rating_average)  # 4.36166

TODO

• Not all the information exposed by the official API is stored into the Python objects. Need to improve this.

• Try to support the other sites from the boardgamegeek’s family

• Allow better control for configuring the cache

• Improve documentation :)

Contributions/suggestions are welcome!

Credits

Original authors:

• Cosmin Luță (github:lcosmin)

• Phil S. Stein (github:philsstein)

• Geoff Lawler (github:glawler)

Contributions to this fork:

• Tom Usher (github:tomusher)

• Brent Ropp (github:bar350)

• Michał Machnicki (github:machnic)

• Philip Kendall (github:pak21)

• David Feng (github:selwyth)

• Emil Stenström (github:EmilStenstrom)

• Bill Sacks (github:billsacks)

• Arnauld Van Muysewinkel (github:arnauldvm)

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page