Note that on top of the stuff shubn posted above that he has backed up, we need also at least Starfinder, Exalted and Traveller. In the meantime each of us should make plans according to your tech knowledge and hardware capacity to backup whatever you can.
At that point I will post suggestions on how to proceed.
The point is we need to get organized in this, we won’t be able to play it by ear any more once the world is in full swing.įor now, I’ll keep refreshing the Trove 20 times a day until it’s back.
And then a couple times a year we update our backlog backups for good measure. Thankfully, since I plan to track all this stuff from now on as Insomnia starts reporting on TTRPGs, I can save the new stuff manually every month, once we have secured the backlog. Paizo publishes new stuff every month, maybe half a dozen products including Starfinder, and Wizards publishes one or two new things every few months. But the world would be much poorer and less interactive without the extra choices. Every month new material is released that we will need down the road, even if we don’t use all of it it’s still needed to populate the overworld and give the players choices, even though they will only end up picking some of them.
It’s worth expanding on what shubn said, that making a backup once a year is not good enough for us. The Trove has more data in terms of GB, but I found some stuff in that backup not present in The Trove (e.g. I haven't done a thorough file comparison check between that repository and The Trove, but it bears to say that a lot of their files can be found in both repositories. This is complementary to a torrent I posted some months ago on Discord about a full backup of a defunct website that, as far as I understand, was the predecessor to The Trove. The downloads got stuck a couple of times, but I simply closed the app via task manager, deleted the last half-downloaded file, and ran the downloader again, which checks for already downloaded items. I tested it and downloaded everything from the Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, and Cyberpunk folders.
Zenodo.Found a useful utility to download contents from The Trove in bulk: GLAM-Workbench/trove-api-intro (Version v0.1.0). This notebook shows you how to get facet data from Trove.) Useful links ¶ Exploring facets ¶įacets aggregate collection data in interesting and useful ways, allowing us to build pictures of the collection. Trove's zones are important in constructing API requests and interpreting the results. We can then use that data in our own programs. However, instead of sending us back a web page, they deliver data in a form that computers can understand. In this notebook we're going to learn how to send a request for information to the Trove API. Tools, tips, examples ¶ Your first API request ¶
No prior knowledge of Python is expected or required - just follow along! The examples and approaches used could be easily translated into any another programming language. In these notebooks we'll be using the programming language Python. APIs don't care what programming language you use as long as you structure requests in the way they expect.
While you can just type an API request into the location box of your web browser, most of the time requests and responses will be handled by a computer script or program. But instead of going through a nicely-designed web interface, requests to the API are just URLs, and the results are just structured data. You make queries and you get back results. The Trove API works much like the Trove website. APIs provide data in a form that computers can understand and use (we call this machine-readable data). While humans can easily interpret information on a web page, computers need more help. Web APIs are generally used to deliver data. It's a set of predefined requests and responses that enables computer programs talk to each other. What's an API? ¶Īn API is an Application Programming Interface. The notebooks in this section provide many examples of using the API to harvest data and analyse the contents of Trove.īefore you can use the API you need to obtain a key - it's free and quick. Trove provides access to much of it's data through an API (Application Programming Interface).