sp-games 0.0.3

CLI Utility to extract information from Giant Bomb

## Installation Instructions

NOTE - Only tested in MacOS Mojave.

pip install sp-games

## Getting Started

First item of business is to create an API Key from [Giant Bomb](https://www.giantbomb.com/api/)

spag congfigure

## Searching

To search all games, please bear in mind that the API only responds with 100 results and there is currently no pagination.

spag search

### Additional options

-n which will be a fuzzy text lookup of the name so:

spag search -n Fallout

Providing you have a valid API key this will return some JSON with the matching game titles and GUID.

## Specific Game

To search for a specific game you need the GUID which can be got from [Search](#searching)

spag game -g 3030-20504

Will return the specific information about that game.

### Additional Options

-d will add an additional search for the DLCs for that game and return them (if any) in order of release date.

Please note if you are searching for Rock Band 2 for example there are a lot of DLCs!

spag game -g 3030-20504 -d

## Things to note

• JSON was readable enough for this first version. This can be improved.

• Friendly User Interaction responses in this version are not yet at a decent level, for example it will not specifically say if there are no DLCs for a game.

• Error Handling leave a lot to be desired at this point in time.

• The API called (being python) for getting DLC release date are not async or threaded so this should probably be done to make this faster.

• Code duplication is currently quite high and can be refactored to be more generic.

## Potential Additions - We could add an option to pick the response type: i.e. json, text - Types of information to respond with about a game - More API integrations…