icon metadata access

[oganm]

it'd be nice to have a file that lists icon names and their tags for out of website querying.

[Vindexus]

+1

[mcejp]

Perhaps I could do something about this. Where is the metadata stored now?

[oganm]

I just scraped all the tags and descriptions for all icons. Here's the tsv file.

It won't remain up to date for long but here's the R code that did it if you want a version for yourself. Also helpful for #539

library(rvest)
library(glue)
library(dplyr)
library(magrittr)

iconNames = list.files('icons/',recursive = TRUE) %>%
    tools::file_path_sans_ext() %>% 
    stringr::str_replace('/svg/','/') 

iconNames = iconNames[!grepl('license',iconNames)]

allTags = list()
allDescriptions = list()
for(icon in iconNames[1:length(iconNames)]){
    print(icon)
    page = read_html(glue('https://game-icons.net/{icon}.html'))
    tags =page %>% 
        html_nodes('a[rel="tag"]') %>% 
        html_text()
    allTags[[icon]] = tags
    
    description = page %>% html_node('.description') %>% html_text(trim=TRUE)
    allDescriptions[[icon]] = description
}

allTags %>%
    sapply(function(x){paste(x,collapse = '|')}) ->
    mergedTags

data.frame(name = names(mergedTags),
           tags = mergedTags,stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
           description = allDescriptions %>% unlist) ->
    tagFrame

readr::write_tsv(tagFrame,'iconTags.txt')

[ThaumRystra]

Here is a cleaned up JSON file of the metadata organm linked above: game-icons-metadata.json