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BoardGameGeek Scraper - Board Game Data & Ratings

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BoardGameGeek Scraper - Board Game Data & Ratings

BoardGameGeek Scraper - Board Game Data & Ratings

Scrape BoardGameGeek for board game data, ratings, rankings, mechanics, designers, and player counts via BGG XML API2. Browse hot games or search.

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from $10.00 / 1,000 results

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BoardGameGeek Scraper

Scrape BoardGameGeek (BGG) for comprehensive board game data using the official BGG XML API2.

Features

  • Hot Games: Scrape the trending/hot games list
  • Search: Search for board games by name
  • Game Detail: Look up specific games by BGG ID
  • Rich Data: Ratings, rankings, mechanics, categories, designers, player counts, play times, weight ratings
  • Batch Processing: Efficiently fetches up to 20 games per API call

Input

FieldTypeDescription
modestringhot (default), search, or game-detail
searchQueriesstring[]Search terms or BGG game IDs
maxResultsintegerMax results per query (default: 50)
includeStatsbooleanInclude detailed statistics (default: true)
proxyConfigurationobjectOptional proxy settings

Output

Each result contains:

{
"bggId": 174430,
"name": "Gloomhaven",
"yearPublished": 2017,
"description": "Gloomhaven is a game of Euro-inspired...",
"minPlayers": 1,
"maxPlayers": 4,
"playingTime": 120,
"averageRating": 8.62,
"usersRated": 52341,
"bggRank": 2,
"averageWeight": 3.87,
"categories": ["Adventure", "Exploration", "Fantasy"],
"mechanics": ["Action Queue", "Campaign", "Deck Building"],
"designers": ["Isaac Childres"],
"thumbnailUrl": "https://...",
"url": "https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/174430"
}

Use Cases

  • Board game price comparison tools
  • Collection management apps
  • Game recommendation engines
  • Market research for tabletop industry
  • Board game review aggregation

Cost

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing at $0.005 per result.