Ok - this is probably rather a data hoarder faible, or could be labeled as a wild dream.
Do you think it is feasible to use RomM also for "demoscene" collections/releases? No matter, if demos created for C64/Amiga/PC, but also NES etc.
AFAIK, there is nothing like it out there...
In terms of metadata there are two relevant players.
Pouët.net is the most prominent online hub for the demoscene, hosting a vast collection of productions, party results, and community contributions. It’s a treasure trove of demo scene data—demos, intros, cracktros, and more—contributed by users over the years. Unfortunately, as of now, Pouët.net does not provide a public API. Its data is primarily accessible through its web interface, and any programmatic access would require web scraping, which isn’t ideal due to potential rate limits, legal considerations, and the lack of structured data output like JSON or XML that an API would provide.
Secondly: Demozoo.org is another major demoscene archive that aims to catalog productions, groups, and events comprehensively. Like Pouët, it’s community-driven and has a wealth of data. It provided dumps of its database in SQL format periodically, which could be downloaded and hosted locally for querying. Additionally, Demozoo has a REST-like interface for some data (e.g., accessing production details via URLs like https://demozoo.org/productions//), but this isn’t a fully documented API. This is the URL: https://demozoo.org/api/v1/ and e.g. https://demozoo.org/api/v1/releasers/
Ok - this is probably rather a data hoarder faible, or could be labeled as a wild dream.
Do you think it is feasible to use RomM also for "demoscene" collections/releases? No matter, if demos created for C64/Amiga/PC, but also NES etc.
AFAIK, there is nothing like it out there...
In terms of metadata there are two relevant players.
Pouët.net is the most prominent online hub for the demoscene, hosting a vast collection of productions, party results, and community contributions. It’s a treasure trove of demo scene data—demos, intros, cracktros, and more—contributed by users over the years. Unfortunately, as of now, Pouët.net does not provide a public API. Its data is primarily accessible through its web interface, and any programmatic access would require web scraping, which isn’t ideal due to potential rate limits, legal considerations, and the lack of structured data output like JSON or XML that an API would provide.
Secondly: Demozoo.org is another major demoscene archive that aims to catalog productions, groups, and events comprehensively. Like Pouët, it’s community-driven and has a wealth of data. It provided dumps of its database in SQL format periodically, which could be downloaded and hosted locally for querying. Additionally, Demozoo has a REST-like interface for some data (e.g., accessing production details via URLs like https://demozoo.org/productions//), but this isn’t a fully documented API. This is the URL: https://demozoo.org/api/v1/ and e.g. https://demozoo.org/api/v1/releasers/