Boardgame Geek API

  • 29/1/2014
  • One-minute read

Today I learned Boardgamegeek.com provides a XML API which appears to be pretty well documented. For example if I wanted to list all the Board Games I own I could do something like this in python:

In [1]: from urllib2 import urlopen

In [2]: from lxml import etree

In [3]: req = urlopen('http://www.boardgamegeek.com/xmlapi/collection/flip387')

In [4]: xml = etree.parse(req)

In [5]: sorted([ i.text for i in xml.xpath('//name') ])
Out[5]:
['Arkham Horror',
 'Bears!',
 'Castle Panic',
 'Clue',
 'Cranium',
 'Dominion',
 'Dungeon!',
 'Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of Ashardalon Board Game',
 'Elder Sign',
 'Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game',
 'Legendary: Dark City',
 'Monopoly',
 'Munchkin',
 'Munchkin Pathfinder',
 'Once Upon a Time: The Storytelling Card Game',
 'Pandemic',
 'Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords - Base Set',
 'Risk',
 'Scrabble',
 'Small World',
 'Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game',
 'Talisman (Revised 4th Edition)',
 'The Settlers of Catan',
 'Ticket to Ride',
 'Zombie Dice']
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