[Feature Request]: Make downloadable versions of the datasets available

[diniscanastro]

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Hey Emuready community,

First of all, let me congratulate you for the website. I got into retro gaming a few years ago and it's great to see this kind of projects take shape. I've been using your website for a long time since I dipped my toes in with the almighty Thor and it's impressive how far we got with having my whole childhood fit in the pocket with 3x the resolution.

I'm thinking of getting a new phone and I would like to be able to do some emulation and PC gaming on it for when the train rides get a bit too long. As you may be aware, SoC are being released every year and nowadays there's a bigger market share between Qualcomm and Snapdragon (or even Google and Samsung) and I've tried querying your website but I'm craving some better mass analysis tools as I have experience with data science.

My question is whether it would be possible to make the datasets of user reports publicly available so we can do some personalized analysis, maybe even publish it in some community forum for everyone's delight :)

Thank you in advance!

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Create a dataset download section for the user reports.

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[Producdevity]

Thank you for the kind words! To cover most people’s needs we have a public API. Without an API Key the rate limits should be generous enough to query most of the data. If you are hitting rate limits or would like to ask questions about the api feel free to ping me in the EmuReady Discord. (Api keys with higher rate limits are free, this is just a way for us to keep server load somewhat manageable)

Please correct me if I misunderstood your request

[diniscanastro]

@Producdevity found it, thank you very much! I'll try through the public API but I suspect I may require a handful of requests. You recon it should be handled by the server or would a dataset dump make more sense?

[Producdevity]

@Producdevity found it, thank you very much! I'll try through the public API but I suspect I may require a handful of requests. You recon it should be handled by the server or would a dataset dump make more sense?

I have been considering having a weekly sql or csv dump via github actions/cron. I wouldn't mind having the data preserved/archived that way, but I currently don't have a lot of time on my hands to add this. Not sure if you are a developer but feel free to contribute a cron ci action that does this. As long as emails, passwords, usernames, etc are all masked. (Or skip user, profiles, comments, etc all together)

[diniscanastro]

I may try my hand at it then 🤔