For last few weeks I’m obsessed with Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/ – a platform for data scientists, ML/AI engineers and data analysts. For significant share of people it is one of entry points in a machine learning world – just because of infinite variety of competitions, datasets, examples of notebooks and relatively strong community.
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Need to mention one more fact about myself – I really like computer games. I cannot say that I have enough time to spend with this hobby, but I still continue monitoring this industry and also intact with major platforms responsible for video games distribution.
And one more fact about me – sometimes I like to investigate if any such platform has an option somehow to extract data, either by API or by other more or less legal methods.
Today I decided to pay attention to GOG.com, one of the most noticeable PC gaming-related video games platform, focused on video games preservation and indie gaming support. In this article I will try to show how to extract data from GOG (basic stats about video games on platform and reviews data), and to discuss on how it can be used.
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